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The Painting and the City

Robert Freeman Wexler

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Description:In the twelve years since its limited-edition publication in the UK, Robert Freeman Wexler's novel has become a sought-after cult classic. Now a wider audience can experience its potent blend of contemporary urban realism and surreal fantasy.At a mundane Manhattan party in the first summer of the twenty-first century, sculptor Jacob Lerner catches sight of an old painting and is transfixed. Who is the woman it portrays so intently? And what accounts for the malevolent gaze of the figure lurking behind her? Striving to produce art that meets his high standards, without surrender to the demands of the marketplace, Lerner is also driven to learn about the haunting portrait and its creator, Philip Schuyler. His discovery of Schuyler’s journal reveals the sinister forces that coerced the artist as he fulfilled his commission in 1840s New York, and sharpens Lerner’s own conflict with those forces that still control the modern city. Propelled in his quest by a glass marionette with unusual powers, Lerner finds himself slipping back and forth in time between the present-day city and Schuyler’s Manhattan, before the island’s pastures and streams were buried under concrete. His obsession comes to dominate his own art: he produces a pair of works, one that recovers the promise of the preindustrial island; the other a visualization of the modern metropolis, corrupted by greed and entrenched interests, and its possible destruction.With his vision of a city in ruins, open to regeneration through nature and art, Lerner arrives at a cataclysmic conclusion.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Painting and the City. To get started finding The Painting and the City, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: The Visible Spectrum

Release: 2021

ISBN: 9781953835

Description: In the twelve years since its limited-edition publication in the UK, Robert Freeman Wexler's novel has become a sought-after cult classic. Now a wider audience can experience its potent blend of contemporary urban realism and surreal fantasy.At a mundane Manhattan party in the first summer of the twenty-first century, sculptor Jacob Lerner catches sight of an old painting and is transfixed. Who is the woman it portrays so intently? And what accounts for the malevolent gaze of the figure lurking behind her? Striving to produce art that meets his high standards, without surrender to the demands of the marketplace, Lerner is also driven to learn about the haunting portrait and its creator, Philip Schuyler. His discovery of Schuyler’s journal reveals the sinister forces that coerced the artist as he fulfilled his commission in 1840s New York, and sharpens Lerner’s own conflict with those forces that still control the modern city. Propelled in his quest by a glass marionette with unusual powers, Lerner finds himself slipping back and forth in time between the present-day city and Schuyler’s Manhattan, before the island’s pastures and streams were buried under concrete. His obsession comes to dominate his own art: he produces a pair of works, one that recovers the promise of the preindustrial island; the other a visualization of the modern metropolis, corrupted by greed and entrenched interests, and its possible destruction.With his vision of a city in ruins, open to regeneration through nature and art, Lerner arrives at a cataclysmic conclusion.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Painting and the City. To get started finding The Painting and the City, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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