Spain's Raphael Alberti, now 95, is one of the great poets of the 20th century. Each of the poems here is inspired by one of three different elements of painting--the painter, the colors, or the tools. This bilingual edition features the poems in their original Spanish with English translations alongside. Includes 16 full-color reproductions of many of the paintings referred to in the poems .
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Nonagenarian Alberti, Spain's greatest living poet, is the sole survivor of the Generation of 1927, the likes of which included such illustrious members as Lorca and Aleixandre. This work, originally written 50 years ago in exile, perpetuates Alberti's lifelong devotion to and fascination with art, which encapsulates the Horatian "ut pictura poesis" or even the more recent French Symbolist synesthesia of colors and sounds. The poems treat one of three facets of painting?color, artists, and instruments?each of which is assigned its particular poetic style; for example, media are rendered as Shakespearean sonnets, colors as numbered aphorisms. Though one might quibble with certain liberties taken with the translation, even more obvious with the originals opposite in this bilingual edition, the copious notes, useful bibliography, and plates (not seen in color) more than compensate. Like the topic, a work of art; recommended for all libraries.?Lawrence Olszewski, OCLC Lib., Dublin, Ohio
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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