Goya's the Forge

Goya's the Forge - Hardcover

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Goya's the Forge - Hardcover

Goya's the Forge - Hardcover

by Hisham Matar , Xavier F. Salomon
$29.95
$29.95

Book Overview

New volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by Frick deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon paired with a text by award-winning author Hisham Matar.

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is among the most important Spanish artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A late masterpiece, his Forge derives from the mythological theme of the forge of Vulcan, the metalworker of the Olympian gods. The figures in Goya's monumental, haunting painting are instead muscular laborers at work around a blacksmith's anvil. Salomon's deeply researched text is complemented by a poetic piece by Matar.

Designed to foster critical engagement and interest specialist and non-specialist alike, each book in the Frick Diptych series illuminates a single work in the Frick's rich collection with an essay by a Frick curator paired with a contribution from a contemporary artist or writer.
ISBN9781913875527
Author Hisham Matar , Xavier F. Salomon
PublisherGiles
GenreArts and History
FormatHardcover
PublishedMarch 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages72
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Hisham Matar
Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Commonwealth First Book Award, the Premio Flaiano, and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, published in 2011, was named one of the best books of the year by The Guardian and the Chicago Tribune. His work has been translated into twenty-nine languages. He lives in London and New York.
About Xavier F. Salomon
Xavier F. Salomon is the deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, New York.Vladimir Kanevsky is a figurative sculptor, who has been based in the USA for 35 years.

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