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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Page 121
... pictures , the por- traits and so on . By sampling each of these , Sewell hoped to build up a convincing picture of Eakins's main preoccupations , and of the growth of his style . Eakins was no theorist , but he was by no means a bluff ...
... pictures , the por- traits and so on . By sampling each of these , Sewell hoped to build up a convincing picture of Eakins's main preoccupations , and of the growth of his style . Eakins was no theorist , but he was by no means a bluff ...
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... picture - within - a - picture to the left ) . The truth is that the Bacon one sees this time at the Tate has much more in common with old masters than with contemporary painting . The paint acquires a wonderful plenitude in becoming ...
... picture - within - a - picture to the left ) . The truth is that the Bacon one sees this time at the Tate has much more in common with old masters than with contemporary painting . The paint acquires a wonderful plenitude in becoming ...
Page 394
... picture . The ownership of these rights was of vast importance to the Victorian art market . It affected the price of popular pictures in exactly the same way that the market for film and television rights affects the price of popular ...
... picture . The ownership of these rights was of vast importance to the Victorian art market . It affected the price of popular pictures in exactly the same way that the market for film and television rights affects the price of popular ...
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