Title: Reading Russell :
Authors: Russell, John,
Date: 1989
Publisher: H.N. Abrams,
Physical description: 263 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Contents: Alexander Pushkin -- Eugene Delacroix -- From Aksakov to Chaliapin -- Henry James comes down from the ivory tower -- Meyerhold Redux -- The Malraux show -- Godot remembered -- Fischer-Dieskan : a golden future -- Lincoln Kirstein : in the American grain -- John Pope-Hennessy -- Pleasure in reading -- Gibbon in Lausanne -- Voltaire in Geneva -- An odd couple : Flaubert and Turgeniev -- John Ruskin : a deep well of words -- Sainte-Beuve, the weekly achiever -- Jean-Honore Fragonard -- Berthe Morisot -- Thomas Eakins -- Walter Sickert -- Beatrix Potter -- Willem De Kooning -- Joseph Beuys -- James Turrell -- Anselm Kiefer -- Gilbert & George -- Meyer Schapiro -- Kenneth Clark -- A. Hyatt Mayor -- Clive Bell -- Russell Page -- Betty Parsons -- Anthony and Violet Powell -- Farewell to London -- Luminism : the healing art -- Harold Rosenberg and the role of the critic -- It's not "women's art" : it's art -- What happened to men? -- Art tells us where we are -- Postmodern -- the new flower on diction's dungheap -- VI. Some evenings on the town -- Eugene Ionesco : a school of vigilance -- Nijinsky and Nijinska -- Hockney and Tristan -- Rachmaninoff as songbird -- La Boheme -- Falstaff -- Connecticut : alpha and omega -- Other people's houses -- From Aalen to Zypern : the continental timetable -- A room with a view -- Love me, love my luggage -- Wisteria (Rhymes with hysteria) -- India!
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Arts.