About Modern Art; Second Edition

by David Sylvester

• ISBN13: 9780300092028
• ISBN10: 0300092024
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-12-18
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Internationally renowned art critic David Sylvester here muses on key artists of the twentieth century and their nineteenth-century forebears. In the process, he offers profound insights into their practice of art and how we look at modern art. Focusing on the spectator's instinctive emotional and physical response to paintings by such artists as Picasso, Matisse, de Kooning, Newman, and Warhol, Sylvester brings an inspiring sense of the relevance and importance of art to life. Essays on Pollock, Twombly, and Serra, among others, were selected by Sylvester to be added to this updated edition. Book jacket.

Author Biography

David Sylvester (1924-2001) was one of the world's finest writers on modern art, proving himself to be a true champion of new painting and sculpture beginning in the decades after 1945. In 1993 he became the first art critic to receive a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. His other publications include the universally acclaimed Looking at Giacometti, Interviews with Francis Bacon, and Interviews with American Artists

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Curriculum Vitae	11	(24)
Late Klee (1948-50)
Klee - I	35	(3)
Klee - II	38	(11)
Post-War (1954-64)
End of the Streamlined Era	49	(3)
Giacometti	52	(3)
Bacon - I	55	(3)
Dubuffet	58	(3)
Pollock	61	(3)
Rothko	64	(2)
Guston	66	(2)
Reinhardt	68	(3)
Masters (1957-68)
Art of an Aftermath	71	(3)
Monet	74	(2)
Kandinsky	76	(3)
Picasso - I	79	(7)
Gris	86	(4)
Uses of Still Life: Cezanne, Braque, Bonnard	90	(20)
Soutine	110	(22)
Mondrian - I	132	(4)
Bonnard	136	(4)
Matisse	140	(9)
England (1957-63)
English Abstract Art	149	(3)
Sickert	152	(5)
Coldstream	157	(6)
Andrews	163	(3)
Bomberg	166	(4)
Auerbach	170	(3)
Bacon - II	173	(5)
Riley	178	(3)
Surrealists (1962-68)
Arp	181	(6)
Moore	187	(8)
Miro	195	(3)
Ernst	198	(7)
Magritte - I	205	(2)
Magritte - II	207	(6)
Americans (1963-74)
Art of the Coke Culture	213	(9)
Johns - I	222	(7)
Lichtenstein	229	(5)
Rosenquist	234	(2)
Oldenburg	236	(7)
Morris	243	(6)
Forerunners (1961-91)
Daumier	249	(4)
Goya	253	(6)
Constable	259	(10)
England (1986-95)
Epstein	269	(5)
Stokes	274	(3)
Hamilton	277	(10)
Caro	287	(5)
Kossoff	292	(11)
Morley	303	(4)
Long	307	(5)
Gilbert and George	312	(9)
Americans (1986-95)
Newman - I	321	(11)
De Kooning - I	332	(21)
De Kooning - II	353	(19)
Twombly	372	(5)
Cage	377	(6)
Warhol	383	(6)
Serra	389	(7)
Newman - II	396	(3)
Masters (1988-96)
Picasso - II	399	(15)
Picasso and Duchamp	414	(7)
Brancusi	421	(11)
Mondrian - II	432	(5)
Cezanne	437	(8)
Postscript (1996-97)
Picasso and Braque	445	(3)
Masson	448	(6)
Bacon - III	454	(4)
Bacon - IV	458	(5)
Johns - II	463	(14)
Postscript II (1997-2000)
Pollock - II	477	(15)
Installations	492	(7)
Twombly - II	499	(10)
Andre	509	(3)
Beuys	512	(5)
Cragg	517	(6)
Serra	523	(12)
Giotto	535	(4)
Index of Artists	539