In his youth, Vladimir Nabokov aspired to become a landscape artist. Even though he eventually realized that his true vocation was literature, his keen sense of visual detail, nuanced perception of color, and vast knowledge of the fine arts are all manifest in his literary works, which abound with painters and paintings, real and imaginary, as well as with magnificent pictorial imagery rendered in a verbal medium. The relation of the visual arts to Nabokov's work is the subject of The Sublime Artist's Studio, an in-depth ...
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In his youth, Vladimir Nabokov aspired to become a landscape artist. Even though he eventually realized that his true vocation was literature, his keen sense of visual detail, nuanced perception of color, and vast knowledge of the fine arts are all manifest in his literary works, which abound with painters and paintings, real and imaginary, as well as with magnificent pictorial imagery rendered in a verbal medium. The relation of the visual arts to Nabokov's work is the subject of The Sublime Artist's Studio, an in-depth and detailed study of one of the most significant facets of this modern master's oeuvre. Gavriel Shapiro pursues his inquiry throughout Nabokov's literary legacy - poetry, short prose, novels, plays, memoirs, lectures, essays, interviews, and letters. What is the import of Nabokov's lifelong fascination with the Old Masters? How does landscape function in Nabokov's writings? What was the author's relationship to contemporary artists? By addressing these and other questions, while examining Nabokov's references and allusions to the visual arts and to particular works and artists, Shapiro is able to reveal the centrality of painting to Nabokov's belles lettres. His book offers a new and promising approach to one of the twentieth century's most celebrated writers. This is an illuminating study of Nabokov's early career as a visual artist and its effect on his writing.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Fine in Near fine jacket. First printing, 2009, hardcover with beige cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 291pp., illustrated in b&w. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with hint of rubbing.
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NABOKOV, Vladimir. Fine in fine jacket. Some black & white reproductions. 291 pages. 8vo, cream cloth with gilt lettering at spine, pictorial d.w. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, (2009). First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., no flaws-clean, no writing or markings, tight binding, appears unused.; xxi-291pp., 28 b/w illustrations. examines vladimir nabokov's exposure to, interest in, and incorporations of painting and art history. russian art influences, exposure to german expressionist weimar world.
