Interviews With American Artists

by David Sylvester

• ISBN13: 9780300092042
• ISBN10: 0300092040
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-12-17
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This astounding book includes 21 interviews, recorded over the past 40 years, with leading American artists. Together they illuminate all the great developments in American art. Here are the views of David Smith, Richard Serra, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, and others.

Author Biography

David Sylvester (1924-2001) was an internationally renowned art critic and writer, revered exhibition curator, and unparalleled interviewer. In 1993 he became the first art critic to receive a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
David Smith (1960)	1	(14)
Louise Nevelson (1963)	15	(10)
Adolph Gottlieb (1960)	25	(10)
Barnett Newman (1965)	35	(8)
Willem de Kooning (1960)	43	(16)
Franz Kline (1960)	59	(14)
Robert Motherwell (1960)	73	(12)
Philip Guston (1960)	85	(14)
Helen Frankenthaler (1961)	99	(8)
John Cage (1966)	107	(24)
Robert Rauschenberg (1964)	131	(12)
Jasper Johns (1965)	143	(28)
Cy Twombly (2000)	171	(12)
Frank Stella (1965)	183	(18)
Claes Oldenburg (1965)	201	(18)
Roy Lichtenstein (1965)	219	(16)
Alex Katz (1997)	235	(16)
Robert Morris (1967)	251	(22)
Carl Andre (2000)	273	(14)
Richard Serra (1997-99)	287	(42)
Jeff Koons (2000)	329	(30)
Biographical Notes	359	(21)
Jonathan Shirland
Acknowledgments	380	(1)
Index	381