Month: November 2018

Writers on Artists (DK Publishing, 2001)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Edgar Degas.” Writers on Artists. London / New York: DK Publishing, 2001. Pp. 352. 28.2 x 22.3 cm. ISBN: 0789480352.

The book is published in association with Modern Painters. Other authors contributing to this collection include David Hockney, Howard Jacobson, Will Self, Craig Raine, David Bowie, Andrew Motion, Nick Hornby, A. S. Byatt, Seamus Heaney, and others.

Julian Barnes’s essay on Edgar Degas appears on pp. 158-165. The dust jacket matches the illustrated binding, as pictured.

Foot: les 100 photos (EPA, 2002; French)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. ‘[Untitled].” Foot: les 100 photos. Paris: EPA, 2002. Pp. 223 + [1]. 34.7 x 24.6 cm. ISBN: 2851205811. (French).

Edited by Benoît Heimermann avec la collaboration de Céline Ruissel.

Julian Barnes contributes a short piece on a photograph of footballer George Best.

“Words for H. H.” | Howard Hodgkin (Gagosian, 2014)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Howard Hodgkin: Words for H. H.” in Howard Hodgkin. [Paris]: Gagosian Paris, 2014. Pp. 111 + [1]. 27.1 x 31.2 cm. ISBN: 9781938748028.

The book includes contributions by Barnes, James Fenton, Susan Sontag, and Jeff Wall.

Julian Barnes’s essay appears in both French (pp. 83-89) and English (pp. [91]-96. The French translation was by Jean-Pierre Aoustin.

Barnes’s essay originally appeared in Howard Hodgkin (Gagosian Gallery, 2003).

Make It New: The Rise of Modernism (University of Texas Press, 2003)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “The Immovable Feast of Modernism” in Make It New: The Rise of Modernism. Kurt Heinzelman, general editor. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 155 + [1]. 25.3 x 30.5 cm. ISBN: 0292702841.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Make It New: The Rise of Modernism by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, October 21, 2003 to March 7, 2004.

 

“U” | Hockney’s Alphabet (Random House, 1991)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “U” in Hockney’s Alphabet. Edited by Stephen Spender. New York: Random House, 1991. Pp. 92 + [4]. 39.4 x 23.3 cm. ISBN: 067941066x.

Drawings by David Hockney with written contributions by Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Craig Raine, and others. Each author addresses a letter from the alphabet.

Julian Barnes’s contribution appears on page 71-72.

“The proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit the American Friends of AIDS Crisis Trust and be used to support AIDS research and services to people with AIDS.”

The book was also published in deluxe and special editions.

“Words for H. H.” | Howard Hodgkin (Gagosian Gallery, 2003)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Words for H. H.” in Howard Hodgkin. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2003. Pp. 102. 31.2 x 26.2 cm. ISBN: 0962302457.

Julian Barnes’s essay “Words for H. H.” appears on pp. 99-100. The book has photographic end pages and its dust jacket unfolds into a large poster featuring one of Hodgkin’s works.

“Bark” | Secret Ingredients (Random House, 2007)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Bark” in Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink. Edited by David Remnick. New York: Random House, 2007. Pp. 582 + [8]. 24.1 x 16.2 cm. ISBN: 9781400065479.

Julian Barnes’s short story “Bark” appears on pp. [572]-582.

“Playing Chess with Arthur Koestler” | Encounters (Yale University Press, 1989)

Notes on this edition: Julian Barnes. “Playing Chess with Arthur Koestler” in Encounters. Edited by Kai Erikson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. 163 + [3]. 24.1 x 16 cm. ISBN: 0300046626.

Barnes’s essay appears on pp. 23-34.

The Modern Library (Picador, 1999)

Notes on this edition: Carmen Callil and Colm Tóibín. The Modern Library: The Two Hundred Best Novels in English Since 1950. London: Picador, 1999. Pp. xxviii. 259 + [1]. 22.1 x 14 cm. ISBN: 0330341820. £12.99.

Julian Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot is featured on p. 14.

Das schöne schräge Weihnachtsbuch (Haffmans Verlag, 2000; German)

Notes on this edition: Dan Kavanagh. “Der 50-Pfennig-Weihnachtsmann.” Selected by Gerd Haffmans. Das schöne schräge Weihnachtsbuch. Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, 2000. Pp. 250 [251] + [5]. 19 x 14.1 cm. Translated by Gertraude Krueger. ISBN: 3251004913. (German).

Dan Kavanagh’s short story printed on pp. 173-[183].