Goya
by Werner Hofmann, Werner Hofmann, Francisco Goya
Themes, motivesCriticism and interpretationHistory of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900Individual artists
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"Werner Hofmann places Goya's paintings, drawings and prints in an historical context, revealing the specific character of each phase of the artist's life and work. He discusses 'the glory and the pain of faith' evinced by Goya's early work, the artist's parabolic representation of the threat posed by the French Revolution, his dramatic documentation of the French occupation of Spain, his variations on cruelty in the Horrors of War etchings, and the faith in art apparent in his late work. Hofmann also relates the artist and his work to contemporary intellectual developments, drawing comparisons with writers, critics and philosophers from Goethe to William Blake and the Marquis de Sade."--BOOK JACKET.
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Themes, motivesCriticism and interpretationHistory of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900Individual artistsPainting & paintings
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Werner Hofmann
1928 – 2013
Austrian art historian, cultural journalist, writer, curator and museum director.
Francisco Goya
30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828
A Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns.
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