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This dazzling volume comprises 69 essays by the eminent curator and critic David Sylvester, including important pieces on Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard, Mondrian, Johns, de Kooning, Warhol and Gilbert & George. His sustained investigations into the artists and their practice gives us piercing insights into the works and the artists themselves. This is not dry, remote, academic criticism: it has an immediacy and passion which leave one with an inspiring sense of the relevance and importance of art to life.
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"Sylvester's real achievement-consists of an almost unrivalled power to gaze, and to find language to express the rewards of intensive contemplation" (Frank Kermode London Review of Books)
"Sylvester lists the qualities that make a painter great: "fearlessness; a profound originality, a total absorption in what obsesses him, and above all, a certain authority and gravity". All these apply in equal measure to himself, compounded with vast scholarship, wit and modesty" (Elspeth Barker Sunday Times)
"David Sylvester is in many ways the most distinguished critical writer Britain has produced since Roger Fry" (Patrick Reyntiens Tablet)
"Sylvester is not only the foremost writer on art: he is also a marvellous prose stylist and an outstanding mind. Original, erudite, witty and moving" (Cressida Connolly Spectator)
"Everybody interested in the subject...will want this book" (Martin Gayford Sunday Telegraph)
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"Sylvester lists the qualities that make a painter great: "fearlessness; a profound originality, a total absorption in what obsesses him, and above all, a certain authority and gravity". All these apply in equal measure to himself, compounded with vast scholarship, wit and modesty" (Elspeth Barker Sunday Times)
"David Sylvester is in many ways the most distinguished critical writer Britain has produced since Roger Fry" (Patrick Reyntiens Tablet)
"Sylvester is not only the foremost writer on art: he is also a marvellous prose stylist and an outstanding mind. Original, erudite, witty and moving" (Cressida Connolly Spectator)
"Everybody interested in the subject...will want this book" (Martin Gayford Sunday Telegraph)
The revised edition of David Sylvester's highly acclaimed collection of essays on twentieth century artists, with a new final section of eight new essays.
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0712673539
- ISBN 13 9780712673532
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages480
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Book Description 23.5 x 15.5cms, 542pp, very good- paperback & cover This is a compilation of Sylvester's writings about 20th century art. The chapters are: late Klee (1948-50); post-war (1954-64); masters (1957-68); England (1957-63); surrealists (1962-68); Americans (1963-74); forerunners (1961-91); England (1986-95); Americans (1986-95); masters (1988-96); postscript (1996-97); postscript II (1997-2000). Seller Inventory # 171929
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