Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and ArtistsThe most controversial art critic in America and author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art, artists, and the art world-from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo. -- Back cover. |
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... Poussin , Rome could no longer condescend to Paris . But without Rome there would have been no Poussin : Rome formed and trained him , gave him his conception of professional life , his myths , his essential subjects , his sensuality ...
... Poussin , Rome could no longer condescend to Paris . But without Rome there would have been no Poussin : Rome formed and trained him , gave him his conception of professional life , his myths , his essential subjects , his sensuality ...
Page 69
... Poussin was to art what his contemporary Pierre Corneille became to drama . As La Bruyère said of Corneille , he " paints men as they ought to be . " The world of Corneille's great tragedies of the 1640s , Rodogune or Horace , is ...
... Poussin was to art what his contemporary Pierre Corneille became to drama . As La Bruyère said of Corneille , he " paints men as they ought to be . " The world of Corneille's great tragedies of the 1640s , Rodogune or Horace , is ...
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... Poussin the only French artist who really mattered : il grande favoleggiatore , " the great storyteller . " For the ... Poussin's ancient Romans are not the insipid denizens of lesser classical art but men and women of vivid pres- ence ...
... Poussin the only French artist who really mattered : il grande favoleggiatore , " the great storyteller . " For the ... Poussin's ancient Romans are not the insipid denizens of lesser classical art but men and women of vivid pres- ence ...
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