Ciao, Carpaccio!: An Infatuation - Couverture rigide

Morris, Jan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 087140799X ISBN 13 : 9780871407993

Editeur : Liveright Pub Corp, 2014

Synopsis

A genial, witty, and touching journey through the endlessly evocative art of Carpaccio. Saluting the painter whose pictures remain some of the most enchanting ever made of Venice, Jan Morris makes her own last journey to a city she has written about like no other.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Jan Morris is to other travel writers what John le Carré is to other spy novelists. She has the knack of her fellow masters ... of being able to barge in on strangeness and feel immediately at home. --New York Times

Our greatest living travel writer ... wise, well-read, wide-traveled, clear-sighted, compassionate, humane, unforgettable. --Paul Theroux

For sixty years she's been blending acute insights and warm intuitions into uniquely fluent, imperturbable, and evocative descriptions. --Pico Iyer

Morris has written a shelf-full of exceptional literature ... I love her attention to offbeat details, her eye for emblematic characters, her gentle humor and pointed wit, her encyclopedic knowledge of history and art, and the ongoing dance of research and apprehension, description and analysis that whirls through her writing. --Don George, Salon

Entertaining, ironical, witty, high spirited and appreciative ... Both melancholy and gay and worldly.' -- Geoffrey Grigson on Jan Morris's book 'Venice'

A taut and personal report, wholly absorbing, quickened by vivid prose and astringent humour. --Sunday Times on Jan Morris's book 'Venice'

She cherishes every cranny: [Venice's] 3,000 alleyways, its jails, its waterways and its buildings decaying like 'dukes in threadbare ermine'. She presents its past, its art and its language, which Byron called 'sweet bastard Latin'. A suitably respectful narration with an Italian flourish. --Rachel Redford, The Observer on Jan Morris's book 'Venice'

Morris fell in love with Venice when there during the Second World War, and her accumulation of memories is heartfelt, personal, quirky and enlightening. Perfect for a leisurely approach by Eurostar and night train to Venice, but just as good for whiling away the dull hours commuting to work. --Christina Hardyment, The Times on Jan Morris's book 'Venice'

The enthusiasm is infectious. Venetian history, culture, religion, food [Morris] relishes them all, from the glory years between the 12th and 15th centuries when La Serenissima controlled the trade routes between east and west, to the nuns at one of the more fashionable convents claiming their right to supply a mistress for the new papal nuncio, to the notice on the Grand Canal: 'It is forbidden to spit on the swimmers.' Don't go to Venice without it. --Sue Arnold, The Guardian on Jan Morris's book 'Venice'

Présentation de l'éditeur

Nothing is quite as wonderful as reading about something the author so clearly, manifestly adores and wishes only to share her delight with us. -- Kirkus Reviews

After a good dinner one evening, with excellent company and a bottle of wine, I settled by my fire with a volume of paintings by the 15th century Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio. For much of my life I have been under the spell of this artist. I am no connoisseur, cultural scholar or art historian. I know nothing about painterly techniques, chromatic gradations or artistic affinities, and my infatuation with him is largely affectionate fancy. I feel I know him personally, and I often sense that I am directly in touch with him across the centuries, across the continents, as one might be in touch with a living friend....

So starts Jan Morris s latest book, which she has said will also be her last: a genial, witty, and touching journey through the endlessly evocative art of Carpaccio. Saluting the painter whose pictures remain some of the most enchanting ever made of Venice, Jan Morris makes her own last journey to a city she has written about like no other. Richly illustrated with complete paintings and eye-catching details, this book is a fitting swansong by a great writer to her favourite painter.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Pub Corp
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 087140799X
• ISBN 13: 9780871407993
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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