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Item Number: 128671
Title: VELAZQUEZ : The Complete Works
Author: Lopez-Rey, Jose ; Odile Delenda
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783836550161
Description: Köln: Taschen, 2014. 40cm., hardcover, 416pp. prof. illus. Summary: This catalog raisonne brings together Velazquez's complete works--reproduced in extra-large format with a selection of delicious enlarged details--with insightful commentary on how his paintings give equal attention to all that they contain. To him, an old woman frying eggs or a buffoon was as important as a Pope or a King. For him, form was subservient to light and color; the brushstrokes were markers to help the viewers reconstruct each picture mentally--concepts adopted vehemently by the Impressionists. Velazquez's greatest talent was creating beauty from the grotesque, imbuing each subject with a human liveliness rarely seen on canvas. In its extensive detail and comparisons, Jose Lopez-Rey's book reveals the development of this vision. Things are or are not, they exist or vanish, in the same way that Calderon felt that life was like a dream. In the work of Velazquez, the language is everything. Thanks to the joint initiative of Taschen and Wildenstein, this exceptional publication features new photography of recently restored paintings, published here for the first time.
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