About Modern Art by David Sylvester
About Modern Art is the long-awaited collection of David Sylvester's essays on twentieth-century artists. This is not dry, remote, academic criticism: it has an immediacy and passion which leave one with an inspiring sense of the relevance and importance of art to life.
Sylvester's real achievement-consists of an almost unrivalled power to gaze, and to find language to express the rewards of intensive contemplation -- Frank Kermode * London Review of Books *
Sylvester lists the qualities that make a painter great: "fearlessness; a profound originality, a total absorption in what obsesses him, and above all, a certain authority and gravity"All these apply in equal measure to himself, compounded with vast scholarship, wit and modesty -- Elspeth Barker * Sunday Times *
David Sylvester is in many ways the most distinguished critical writer Britain has produced since Roger Fry -- Patrick Reyntiens * Tablet *
Sylvester is not only the foremost writer on art: he is also a marvellous prose stylist and an outstanding mind. Original, erudite, witty and moving -- Cressida Connolly * Spectator *
Everybody interested in the subject...will want this book -- Martin Gayford * Sunday Telegraph *
Sylvester lists the qualities that make a painter great: "fearlessness; a profound originality, a total absorption in what obsesses him, and above all, a certain authority and gravity"All these apply in equal measure to himself, compounded with vast scholarship, wit and modesty -- Elspeth Barker * Sunday Times *
David Sylvester is in many ways the most distinguished critical writer Britain has produced since Roger Fry -- Patrick Reyntiens * Tablet *
Sylvester is not only the foremost writer on art: he is also a marvellous prose stylist and an outstanding mind. Original, erudite, witty and moving -- Cressida Connolly * Spectator *
Everybody interested in the subject...will want this book -- Martin Gayford * Sunday Telegraph *
David Sylvester was born in 1924 in London and lived mainly there. His published books include Henry Moore (1968), Interviews with Francis Bacon (1975), Rene Magritte (1992), the five-volume catalogue raisonne of Magritte (1992-1-4-5), Looking at Giacometti (1994, also available in Pimlico) and Looking Back at Francis Bacon (2000). From 1951 he curated or co-curated numerous major exhibitions at museums in London, Paris, Venice, New York and Washington, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed and one-man shows of Picasso, Laurens, Soutine, Miro, Magritte, Giacometti, de Kooning and Francis Bacon. His films include Matisse and his Model (1968) and Magritte: the False Mirror (1969). He was awarded C.B.E. in 1983, and was a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an Honourary Fellow of the Royal Academy and a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art. In 1993 he became the first critic ever to receive a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. He died in June 2001.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780712605632 |
| ISBN 10 | 0712605630 |
| Title | About Modern Art |
| Author | David Sylvester |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Year published | 2002-01-10 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
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