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 136
... surface qualities come into play . . . . It is as though the artist had discovered a means of simultaneously combining touch and sight . ” Manet's sense of touch was extraordinary , but its bravura passages are in the details : how the ...
... surface qualities come into play . . . . It is as though the artist had discovered a means of simultaneously combining touch and sight . ” Manet's sense of touch was extraordinary , but its bravura passages are in the details : how the ...
Page 201
... surfaces , tonal structure or Cubist layering of space . In future , art would hang onto the spread - out , expansive ... surface . Louis's direct inspira- tion for this was an early canvas by Helen Frankenthaler , Mountains and Sea ...
... surfaces , tonal structure or Cubist layering of space . In future , art would hang onto the spread - out , expansive ... surface . Louis's direct inspira- tion for this was an early canvas by Helen Frankenthaler , Mountains and Sea ...
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... surface later in the title of a 1944 painting , How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life . ) Gorky's sense of draftsmanship was bound up in the " speed " of a line , its whip and springiness , its ability to convey an edge ...
... surface later in the title of a 1944 painting , How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life . ) Gorky's sense of draftsmanship was bound up in the " speed " of a line , its whip and springiness , its ability to convey an edge ...
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