Kemp Ruth Ahmedzai - Farewell to the horse: the final century of our relationship

Ulrich Raulff

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FAREWELL TO THE HORSE

The Final Century of Our Relationship

Translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

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First published in German by Verlag C. H. Beck oHG Munchen 2015

This translation published by Allen Lane 2017

Copyright Verlag C. H. Beck oHG Munchen, 2015

Translation copyright Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, 2017

The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International Translation Funding for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG WORT and the Brsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association).

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Front cover: Quantum Leap II, charcoal and graphite on paper, 2016 by Patsy McArthur

ISBN: 978-0-241-25761-6

. Battle of the Centaurs, Arnold Bcklin, 1873 (photo: Erich Lessing)

. The Victoria, Jean Braud, c.1895 (Muse de la Ville de Paris, Muse Carnavalet, Paris)

. The stands at Deauville (postcard from the authors collection)

. The Centaur at the Village Blacksmiths Shop, Arnold Bcklin, 1888 (Universal Images Group)

. Ploughing, Giovanni Segantini, 188790 (Universal Images Group)

. The Polish Rider, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655 (photo: Andr Held)

. Frame from Lucky Luke, the Painter (copyright Egmont Ehapa Media GmbH, 2014)

. Rodeo rider Dixie Lee Reger, 1943 (Universal Images Group)

. Still from Car crash, a YouTube video

. The Jewish Rider, R. B. Kitaj, 1984

. The Injured Jockey, Edgar Degas, 18968 (photo: Erich Lessing)

. The Horse Fair, Rosa Bonheur, 18525 (copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

. Berbers Horse Races in Rome, Thodore Gricault, 1817 (photo: Erich Lessing)

. The 1821 Derby at Epsom, Thodore Gricault, 1821 (photo: Erich Lessing)

. Illustration from Cours dhippiatrique, ou trait complet de la medcine des chevaux: orn de soixante & cinq planches graves avec soin, Philippe-tienne Lafosse, Paris, 1772

. Neptunes Horses, Walter Crane, 1892 (photo: Erich Lessing)

. Marathon, Carl Rottmann, 1847 (National Gallery, London)

. Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City, Johannes Oertel, 18523 (copyright Collection of the New York Historical Society, USA)

. Washington Rallying the Americans at the Battle of Princeton, William T. Ranney, 1848 (copyright 2015. Princeton University Art Museum/Art Resource NY/Photo Scala, Florence (photo: Bruce M. White, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ))

. Napoleon Crossing the Alps or Bonaparte at the St Bernard Pass, Jacques Louis David, c.1801. (De Agostini Picture Library)

. Portrait of Georgy Zhukov, Vasily Yakovlev, 1946 (Album/Prisma)

. The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, Peter Paul Rubens, c.1618 (Album/Prisma)

. The Lion Hunt, Peter Paul Rubens, 1621 (Album/Prisma)

. Venus and Mars with Cupid and a Horse, Paolo Veronese, 1570 (MPortfolio/Electa)

. Castigo damore, or Punishment of Love, Paolo Fiammingo, c.15859 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

. The Courtesan, Thomas Couture, 1873 (RMN Grand Palais/Adlade Beaudoin; bpk Bildagentur fr Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin)

. Detail from the Bourbaki Panorama, Edouard Castres, 1881 (Bourbaki Panorama Lucerne Archive)

. Boy Leading a Horse, Pablo Picasso, 19056 (copyright Succession Picasso/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2015)

. The Tarascon Diligence (Stagecoach), Vincent van Gogh, 1888 (Album/Oronoz)

. Don Quixote, Honor Daumier, c.1868 (akg-images, Berlin)

. Lucian Freud and Grey Gelding. Photo: David Dawson, 2003 (Bridgeman Images, Berlin)