1. Flaubert on painting: the Italian notes (1851)
- Author
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Tooke, Adrienne
- Subjects
Painting -- Portrayals ,Art and literature -- 19th century AD ,Literature/writing ,Regional focus/area studies - Abstract
Paintings were for Flaubert intellectual starting points and figures to be transcended as well as confirmations of the value of his own ideas. His writing shows the influence that the artist's perspective had on his perceptions, but he transfigures the artistic creations themselves. He distrusted both art criticism and travellers' narrative descriptions of art, considering it all but impossible to capture any of the viewing experience in text. Ultimately, art was a kind of talisman for Flaubert, one that more clearly marked a path he had already chosen to follow.
- Published
- 1994