On Depiction by Avigdor Arikha
In this collection of essays that he wrote between 1965 and 1994, Avigdor Arikha expounds on art and artists (Mantegna, Velazquez, Poussin, David, Ingres, Degas, Matisse, and more), technique, seeing, and the state of culture in his day which, one could argue, is no more hopeful today, almost thirty years later.
Avigdor Arikha was one of the most independent-minded artists of the twentieth century. In 1965, at the height of a successful career as an abstract painter, he suddenly stopped painting to return to drawing from life in order to assuage a ‘violent hunger in the eye’ released by his experience of the great Caravaggio exhibition that year. When he returned to painting in 1973, it was to begin the series of intensely observed portraits, nudes, and still lifes for which he is known worldwide.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781912475179 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912475170 |
| Title | On Depiction |
| Author | Avigdor Arikha |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | ERIS |
| Year published | 2019-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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