{"id":608,"date":"2008-06-20T14:04:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T21:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/06\/the-sweetness-of-the-avisual-artist\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T14:06:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T21:06:38","slug":"the-sweetness-of-the-avisual-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/20\/the-sweetness-of-the-avisual-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sweetness Of The Avisual Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/the-magazine\/books\/783036\/the-sweetness-pictures-can-add-to-life.thtml\" target=\"_blank\">from The Spectator UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px\">John McEwan on the new book by Peter Mann and Sargy Mann<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"text\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 13px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article_images\/articledir_1566\/783036\/1_listing.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 13px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #000000\">This is the tribute of a child to a parent, especially commendable when the very concept of fatherhood is threatened; rarer still, the co-authors are themselves artists in their separate fields. Peter Mann is responsible for the pleasing design and photographs, and Sargy Mann has answered his son\u2019s questions to provide an autobiographical text which largely concerns visual perception, \u2018not at all straightforward even when you can see\u2019, as Peter Mann says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 13px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #000000\">Jean Renoir\u2019s Renoir, My Father is the prototype. Sargy Mann selected and discussed 27 paintings or series of paintings covering his career and Peter Mann has photographed them as they hang today in private houses. This novel idea is also indebted to Renoir, who told his son:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 13px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jeanrenoir.com\/images\/books\/renoir_father.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Jean Renoir's MY FATHER\" \/><em>You don\u2019t look at a painting. You live with it \u2026 It becomes part of your life. It acts on you like a talisman. The museums are only a makeshift. How can you get excited over a picture with a dozen or so people around you, whispering asinine comments?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 13px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #000000\">So the book is in praise of art as a cherished and beautiful, as opposed to a purely marketable, thing; a reminder of the sweetness pictures can add to life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 13px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #000000\">Sargy Mann inherited very short sight and astigmatism, had cataracts removed in 1973 when he was 36, lost the sight of his right eye through a retinal detachment in 1979. From 1987 the sight in his remaining eye was so poor he used a small telescope or monocular. Soon he also required a white stick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 13px\/normal Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #000000\">[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/the-magazine\/books\/783036\/the-sweetness-pictures-can-add-to-life.thtml\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at The Spectator<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Spectator UK John McEwan on the new book by Peter Mann and Sargy Mann This is the tribute of a child to a parent, especially commendable when the very concept of fatherhood is threatened; rarer still, the co-authors are themselves artists in their separate fields. 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