Publisher's Synopsis
Painting With Words gathers together the best of Lara Marlowe's writings on visual artists and authors. Marlowe writes with great insight and grace on artists such as Picasso, Gauguin, Matisse and Cezanne, and on writers including Sartre and de Beauvoir, Levi-Strauss and Camus. The book is lavishly illustrated with reproductions of some of the key works of art discussed by the author. A must-read for lovers of art and literature and for the many fans of Lara Marlowe's writing on French art in the Irish Times.
