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Title: More than Goya
Review: Evan S. Connell's biography of Francisco Goya is more than that--it is a vast canvas of Europe in the second half of the 18th & first half of the 19th centuries with Goya's Spain and Napoleonic France as protagonists. Each character is introduced with plenty of detail and local color. Goya's paitings and drawings reflect not only his subjects' lives and loves but also his own rich and tormented (r)evolutionary process, from Fuedetodos to Madrid to his last days in Bordeaux. As an artist of the people, he strived to portray the truth beyond mere faces and events and succeeded to both please royalty and alienate reactionary Spanish traditionalists. Connell weaves quotes from previous biographers and art critics into his entertaining narration.I enjoyed this book and recommend it to all readers who were ever intrigued by Goya's inscrutable originality.
