| Edition |
1st Vintage International ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 588 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Drawing -- Jackson Pollock -- Henry Moore -- Juan Gris -- Jacques Lipchitz -- Ossip Zadkine -- Femand Leger -- Pablo Picasso -- Henri Matisse -- Oskar Kokoschka -- The clarity of the Renaissance -- The calculations of Piero -- Poussin's order -- Watteau as the painter of his time -- The honesty of Goya -- The dilemma of the Romantics -- Millet and Labour -- The politics of Courbet -- Gaughin's crime -- The moment of Cubism -- The historical function of the museum -- The changing view of man in the portrait -- Art and property now -- Imge of imperialism -- "Nude in a Fur Coat": Rubens -- "The Painter in His Studio": Vermeer -- "Et in Arcadia Ego": Poussin -- "The Maja Dressed and the Maja Undressed": Goya -- Mathias Grunewald -- L.S. Lowry -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -- Alberto Giacometti -- Pierre Bonnard -- Frans Hals -- Auguste Rodin -- Peter Peri -- Zadkine -- Le Corbusier -- Victor Serge -- Walter Benjamin -- Drawings by Watteau -- Femand Leger -- Thicker than water (Corot) -- Painting a landscape -- Understanding a photograph -- The political uses of photo-montage -- The sight of a man -- Revolutionary undoing -- Past seen from a possible future -- The nature of mass demonstrations -- The Booker Prize speech -- Speech on accepting the Booker Prize for Fiction (1972) -- Why look at animals? -- The suit and the photographer -- Photographers of agony -- Paul Strand -- Uses of photography -- The primitive and the professional -- Millet and the peasant -- Seker Ahmet and the forest -- La Tour and humanism -- Francis Bacon and Walt Disney -- An article of faith -- Between two Colmars -- Courbet and the Jura -- Turner and the Barber's shop -- Rouault and the suburbs of Paris -- Margritte and the imposible -- Romaine Lorquet -- Field -- The white bird -- The storyteller -- The eaters and the eaten -- On the Bosphorus -- The theatre of indifference -- Modigliani's alphabet of love -- The Hals mystery -- In a Moscow cemetery -- Ernst Fischer: A philosopher and death -- Francois, Georges and Amelie: A requiem in three parts -- Drawn to that moment -- The eyes of Claude Monet -- The "Work" of art -- Mayakovsky: His language and his death (with Anya Bostock) -- The hour of poetry -- Leopardi -- The production of the world -- The first and last recipe: "Ulysses" (1991) -- Ev'ry time we say goodbye -- That which is held -- A load of shit -- Mother -- A story for Aesop -- The ideal palace -- Imagine Paris -- A kind of sharing -- Christ of the peasants -- A professional secret -- Ape Theatre -- The opposite of naked -- A household -- Drawing on paper -- Erogenous zone -- The soul and the operator -- The third week of August, 1991. |
| Added Author |
Dyer, Geoff (Journalist)
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| ISBN |
0375713182 : $18.00 |
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