Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World

Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World
- Speckled cream colored hardcover. Jacket is a scene in greys, and white, a country scene.
- 207 pages
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he died in 1721, when he was only thirty-six, has influenced innumerable painters and writers in the centuries sinceâ€”and whose work continues to deepen our understanding of the place that love, friendship, and pleasure have in our daily lives.

Perl creates an astonishing experience by gathering his reflections on this â€œmaster of silken surfaces and elusive emotionsâ€ in the form of an alphabetâ€”a fairy tale for adultsâ€”giving us a new way to think about art. This brilliant collage of a book is a hunt for the treasure of Watteauâ€™s life and vision that encompasses the glamour and intrigue of eighteenth-century Paris, the riotous history of Harlequin and Pierrot, and the work of such modern giants as CÃ©zanne, Picasso, and Samuel Beckett.

By turns somber and beguiling, analytical and impressionistic, Antoineâ€™s Alphabet reaffirms the contemporary relevance of the greatest of all painters of young love and imperishable dreams. It is a book to savor, to share, to return to again and again.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2008-09-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307266620

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2008-09-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307266620

Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World

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