附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index.
How to wrestle with the irresistible -- Silence in painting -- A polyptych of slumbers -- The strange beauty of Charon -- The cat as instrument of nudity -- From God the artist to man the creator -- Like a liquid bond -- Elementary tears.
摘要:"Jean-Louis Chretien looks to poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chretien, we live by responding to the call of experience with words, gestures, and expressions, even silence; in the process, we can become painfully aware of limits and failings." "In luminous meditations on works by Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats, and other artists, Chretien, shows how art created by the "talking hands of painters" and the "secretly lucid" voices of poets helps us confront the finitude of the human body."--Jacket
