Artists' Lives Thames & Hudson (370615740)

Было бы плохо, если бы мы не отметили то, что praised by the Art Newspaper as “the best art writer of his generation”, Майкл Peppiatt был обоснован многими европейскими модными артистами более чем за 50 лет. Это selection of some best biographical writing covers a wide spectrum of modern art, from Van Gogh and Pierre Bonnard, to personal conversations with painter Sonia Delaunay, артист Dora Maar, который был Picasso's lover в 1930s и 1940s, и Francis при котором Peppiatt has formad personal friendships. Michael Peppiatt's lively, engaging writing takes us in the company of notable art-world personalities, such as Catalan painter Antoni Tàpies, при котором мы посетили его студию, и моменты disillusion, так як її проживання з self-mythologizing артист Balthus. Art criticism blends with anecdote: riding with Lucian Freud в его Bentley, drinking with Bacon in Soho, discussing Picasso's trousers with David Hockney... Это коллекция Peppiatt's most perceptive texts, включая подчеркнутых артистов, как Dachau survivor Zoran Music, или Montenegrin артист Dado, который retrospective Peppiatt curated в 2009 Venice Biennale. Remarkably varied v jejich scope and lucidly written for general reader, ці selected essays nonly provide us with perceptive commentary and acute critical judgment, they also give unique personal insight in some of greatest creative minds of the modern era. > 'Beautifully written, suavely informative and thoughtfully inflected… они > очень чёрные и красивые' - Andrew Lambirth, The Spectator > 'Scans the landscape of modern European Painting and Sculpture, giving us> sketches of notable figures' - Arthur Hoyle, New York Journal of Books > 'Remarkably varied in the our a > unique personal insight в некоторые из творческих творчества современных > era' - Book Therapy