About Modern Art
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: November 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780300092028
Subjects: 20th Century Art; Art Criticism; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Art / General; General; 20th century; Art, Modern
First sentence: I came to art through modern art - initially a black-and-white reproduction of Matisse's La Danse.
Description: 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. 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. Added to this edition are essays on Pollock, Twombly, and Serra, among others.