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Winner of the 1998 National Translation AwardThe late Rafael Alberti--painter, poet, exile, friend of Lorca and Picasso and Dalai--was one of the members of the legendary Generation of '27. In To Painting, Alberti dedicates three of the poems to painting materials, six to colors, nineteen to techniques, and twenty-nine to artists. A book of grand design and noble vision, To Painting is not to be missed.
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"A work of art." --
Library JournalReview
"The total impression of the book is of light, love, joy." --
Harvard ReviewReview
"The poems have a kind of rowdy enthusiasm about them. They sparkle." --
San Francisco Bay GuardianSynopsis
Winner of the 1998 National Translation Award
About the Author
Rafael Alberti was born in 1902. During Madrid's literary renaissance of the late 1920s and early 1930s, Alberti wrote his most well-known book of poems,
Sobre los angeles (
Concerning the Angels). After the Spanish Civil War, he wrote
To Painting while in exile in Argentina. Alberti spent almost forty years in exile before returning to Spain. To date, he has written twenty-four volumes of poetry, a handful of plays, and a five-volume autobiography.
Carolyn Tipton, a poet and translator, is the recipient of various grants and awards, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This translation of To Painting won the 1998 National Translation Award, and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA West 1998 Translation Award.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
A la pintura
To Painting
A la paintura
To Painting
Giotto
Giotto
A la retina
To the Retina
A la mano
To the Hand
Botticelli
Botticelli
Azul
Blue
Rafael
Raphael
Tiziano
Titian
Rojo
Red
Tintoretto
Tintoretto
Al pincel
To the Paintbrush
Veronés
Veronese
A la línea
To Line
El Bosco
Bosch
A la perspectiva
To Perspective
Durero
Dürer
Amarillo
Yellow
Rubens
Rubens
A la composición
Verde
Green
Pedro Berruguete
Al ropaje
To Clothing
Zurbarán
Zurbarán
A la luz
Velázquez
Velázquez
Valdés Leal
Valdés Leal
Negro
Black
Goya
Goya
Delacroix
Delacroix
Al desnudo
To the Nude
Cézanne
Cézanne
A la gracia
To Grace
Renoir
Renoir
Blanco
White
Van Gogh
Van Gogh
A la acuarela
To Watercolor
A la divina proporción
To Divine Proportion
Picasso
Picasso
Notes on the Translations