![]() ![]() This is why images have been forbidden in so many of the great religions of the world, and why they have been destroyed in the name of iconoclasm. In his essay on The Unknown Masterpiece included in this NYRB edition, Danto states: "From the perspective of magic, every image has the possibility of coming to life, and perhaps the first images every drawn, however crudely executed, were viewed with an awe that still remains a disposition of the most primitive regions of the human brain. ![]() Firstly, there is the matter of art as a form of magic. Rather than simply recapping events within the story, I will turn to a number of provocative philosophical questions raised by Balzac’s tale. ![]() After reading and falling in loving with this short work, many are the artists who have linked themselves to Frenhofer, including Picasso, Matisse and Cézanne. Porbus can be seen as the Flemish painter Frans Pourbus, Poussin, the master Nicolas Poussin in his youth and Frenhofer, the true genius in the story, is a creation of Balzac’s imagination. The story revolves around three painters - Porbus, Poussin and Frenhofer. ![]() For the purposes of my review I will focus the author's tour de force, The Unknown Masterpiece. This New York Review Books edition is indeed a classic since it includes not only two highly philosophical works by French master Honoré de Balzac on the nature of art and music but also an illuminating introductory essay by philosopher of art/art critic Arthur C. Artist and His Model (1926) - by Pablo Picasso ![]()
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