Goya's the Forge by Matar, Hisham

Goya's the Forge (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781913875527)

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Format: Hardcover
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Goya's the Forge by Matar, Hisham

Goya's the Forge

$29.95
Goya's the Forge by Matar, Hisham

Goya's the Forge

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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New volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by Frick deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon paired with a text by award-winning author Hisham Matar.

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is among the most important Spanish artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A late masterpiece, his Forge derives from the mythological theme of the forge of Vulcan, the metalworker of the Olympian gods. The figures in Goya's monumental, haunting painting are instead muscular laborers at work around a blacksmith's anvil. Salomon's deeply researched text is complemented by a poetic piece by Matar.

Designed to foster critical engagement and interest specialist and non-specialist alike, each book in the Frick Diptych series illuminates a single work in the Frick's rich collection with an essay by a Frick curator paired with a contribution from a contemporary artist or writer.



Author: Hisham Matar, Xavier F. Salomon
ISBN-10: 1913875520
ISBN-13: 9781913875527
Publisher: Giles
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2025
Pages: 72
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.45h x 7.64w x 0.55d
By Hisham Matar
By Hisham Matar
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Born in New York City to Libyan parents, Hisham Matar spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His prize-winning memoir, The Return, was published in 2016 and was the recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Award, the Prix du Livre Etranger Inter & Le Journal du Dimanche, the Rathbones Folio Prize, The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and Germany's Geschwister Scholl Prize. It was one of The New York Times' top 10 books of the year. His most recent publication is My Friends (2024).

Xavier F. Salomon is deputy director & Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection, New York.

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