Old Man Goya
by Blackburn, Julia
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375406115
- ISBN 13
- 9780375406119
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 2002. 239 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness that left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book, Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of political turmoil, of war, violence, and confusion, and Goya transformed what he saw around him into visionary paintings, drawings, and etchings. These were also years of tenderness for Goya, of intimate relationships with the Duchess of Alba and with Leocadia, his mistress, who accompanied him to the end. Blackburn's singular distinction as a biographer is her uncanny ability to create a kaleidoscope of biography, memoir, history, and meditation - to think herself into another world. In Goya she has found the perfect subject. Visiting the towns Goya frequented, reading the revelatory letters that he wrote for years to a boyhood friend, investigating the subjects he portrayed, Julia Blackburn writes about the elderly painter with the intimacy of an old friend, seeing through his eyes and sharing the silence in his head. With unprecedented immediacy and illumination, Old Man Goya gives us an unparalleled portrait of the artist. / Julia Blackburn is the author of three books of nonfiction, Charles Waterson, The Emperor's Last Island, and Daisy Bates in the Desert, and of two novels, The Book of Color and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in England." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Synopsis
Julia Blackburn is the author of three books of nonfiction, Charles Waterton, The Emperor’s Last Island , and Daisy Bates in the Desert , and of two novels, The Book of Color and The Leper’s Companions , both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in England.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Old Man Goya
- Author
- Blackburn, Julia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0375406115
- ISBN 13
- 9780375406119
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / 6. Neo-Classical & Romantic; Movements / Romanticism; European / Spanish & Portuguese;
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