Sartre on Art

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre, Meyer Weidler-Basskin (editors), Ouyang Youquan, Feng Liming
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: He is destined to be a knight who reshapes the world with fire. His incessant talk, his restlessness, and even his fervent cries for the thunder in the silence—all are an art, his own art. This book discusses four artists—two painters, one painter sculptor, and one sculptor painter. Because each artist embodies many contradictions and inexplicable situations, they posed a challenge to Sartre and provided him with an opportunity to elucidate his artistic theory. Tintoretto is a product of class contradiction, and he had to prove himself through fraudulent means. Giacometti is obsessed with his solitary predicament in all things, so he seeks to discover how to depict this world of nothingness.