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 81
... Watteau There are exhibitions that , in their sympathy and scholarly energy , rede- fine the image of a dead artist for a generation . The presentation of paintings and drawings of Antoine Watteau that opened ... Watteau / 81 Antoine Watteau.
... Watteau There are exhibitions that , in their sympathy and scholarly energy , rede- fine the image of a dead artist for a generation . The presentation of paintings and drawings of Antoine Watteau that opened ... Watteau / 81 Antoine Watteau.
Page 83
... Watteau's work appealed irresistibly to the high and mighty of Europe : Frederick the Great of Prussia had no fewer than eighty - nine paintings by or in the manner of Watteau in his palaces at Potsdam , Sans Souci and Charlottenburg ...
... Watteau's work appealed irresistibly to the high and mighty of Europe : Frederick the Great of Prussia had no fewer than eighty - nine paintings by or in the manner of Watteau in his palaces at Potsdam , Sans Souci and Charlottenburg ...
Page 84
... Watteau's “ musicality . ” But what does it mean ? His paintings are full of people playing instruments , and Watteau obviously understood their techniques and disciplines . He loved music ; sometimes he was comic about it too , as in ...
... Watteau's “ musicality . ” But what does it mean ? His paintings are full of people playing instruments , and Watteau obviously understood their techniques and disciplines . He loved music ; sometimes he was comic about it too , as in ...
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