| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
xii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"Essays ... some of them briefly expanded, and, except for one, all selected from a monthly column in Saturday review." |
| Contents |
[1.] People: Ivan Albright -- Why Wyeth? -- Rembrandt -- Clyfford Still -- Mies van der Rohe -- Alfred Barr: modern art's durable crusader -- Moholy-Nagy -- Delacroix -- Walter Arensberg and Marcel Duchamp -- [2.] Places: Circuitous odyssey of Irish art -- Art in the Soviet Union, 1963 -- Mystifying Maya -- What makes Dutch art Dutch -- Art that history shaped: Israel, 1966 -- Alaska's vanishing art, 1966 -- [3.] Pros & cons: Open eye -- In pursuit of antiquity -- Symbol, shadow, and substance -- Place, time, and painter -- Letter to a nature lover -- Story of a picture -or what's a museum for? -- Art's voyage of discovery -- Art education myth -- Mending damaged treasures: Florence, 1967 -- New breeds in art -- Denials and affirmations -- Maturity and a touch of madness -- Buying and a sense of history -- Selective window -- A panorama of nineteenth-century America -- From nature to art. |
| Subject |
Art criticism -- History -- 20th century.
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Art criticism. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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