Looking at pictures / Robert Walser ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky ; with additiona...
Looking at pictures / Robert Walser ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky ; with additiona...
Looking at pictures / Robert Walser ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky ; with additional translations by Lydia Davis and Christopher Middleton.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Christine Burgin/New Directions, [2015]
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Call Numbers
G 2015/4327
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Language
English
German
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Physical Description
Physical content
143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction / by Susan Bernofsky & Christine Burgin -- A painter -- Apollo and Diana -- The van Gogh picture -- A note on van Gogh's l'Arlésienne -- Portrait of a lady -- The dream -- Watercolors -- Hodler's Beech forest -- An exhibition of Belgian art -- The Brueghel picture -- The catastrophe --...
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Christine Burgin/New Directions, [2015]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
LOOKING AT PICTURES--a selection of Robert Walser's writings on art and artists--is a Christine Burgin/New Directions co-publication, and includes 45 full-color illustrations. A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, LOOKING AT PICTURES presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writ...
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Full title
Looking at pictures / Robert Walser ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky ; with additional translations by Lydia Davis and Christopher Middleton.
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Notes
General note
Illustrations are pasted onto book pages.
"Looking at Pictures is a co-publication by New Directions Publishing and the Christine Burgin Gallery. This translation of essays are drawn from Robert Walser's Sämtliche Werke, Aus dem Bleistiftgebiet, and Fritz Kochers Aufsätze, and published by arrangement with Suhrkamp Verlag."
Includes bibliographical references....
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Date Copyright
©2015.
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Call Numbers
G 2015/4327
Record Identifier
74VKR5vvmJKZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKR5vvmJKZ
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ISBN
0811224244 alkaline paper
9780811224246 alkaline paper
DDC
709
MMS ID
991023309739702626
