Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists

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Time 's art critic assesses four centuries of Western art. (Feb.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780140165241
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/28/1992
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 386,008
  • Product dimensions: 5.54 (w) x 8.46 (h) x 0.97 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Decline of the City of Mahagonny
Part One: Ancestors
Hans Holbein Caravaggio France in the Golden Age Anthony Van Dyck George Stubbs Sir Joshua Reynolds Goya Zurbarán Nicolas Poussin Guido Reni Inigo Jones Jean-Siméon Chardin John Constable Antoine Watteau
Part Two: Nineteenth Century
German Romanticism Edgar Degas Courbet in Brooklyn John Singer Sargent Augustus Saint-Gaudens Winslow Homer James Whistler Pre-Raphaelites Camille Pissarro Thomas Eakins
Part Three: Into Modernism
Toulouse-Lautrec Auguste Rodin Van Gogh and Cloisonnism
Édouard Manet Henri Rousseau Vincent van Gogh, Part 1
Vincent van Gogh, Part 2
Paul Gaugain
Part Four: Europeans
René Magritte Vasily Kandinsky Giorgio de Chirico Julio Gonzalez Max Beckmann Henri Matisse in Nice Futurism English Art in the Twentieth Century Oskar Kokoschka Giorgio Morandi Late Picasso
Part Five: Americans
Thomas Hart Benton Deco and Fins Morris Louis Diego Rivera David Smith, Sculptures David Smith, Drawings Lee Krasner Milton Avery Jackson Pollock Arshile Gorky Joseph Cornell Edward Hopper Norman Rockwell Mark Rothko in Babylon Andy Warhol
Part Six: Contemporaries
Saul Steinberg James Turrell R. B. Kitaj Roy Lichenstein Nam June Paik Richard Diebenkorn Komar and Melamid Howard Hodgkin Louise Bourgeois Philip Pearlstein Robert Motherwell Sandro Chia Malcolm Morley Julian Schnabel Jean-Michel Basquiat: Requiem for a Featherweight Willem de Kooning Francis Bacon Francesco Clemente James Rosenquist Alex Katz Susan Rothenberg Anselm Kiefer Elizabeth Murray David Hockney Donald Sultan Leon Kossoff Eric Fischl Sean Scully Christopher Wilmarth Bernard Berenson Tom Wolfe: From Bauhaus to Our House
Brideshead Redecorated Jean Baudrillard: America
Art and Money The SoHoiad: or, The Masque of Art Index

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