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The making of modern art : selected writings / Michael Peppiatt.

by Peppiatt, Michael, author.

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New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2020]

Art, Modern -- 20th century -- History.

254 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction: The making of art -- Towards modernism: -- Victor Hugo, draughtsman -- Manet and Degas at work -- The paradox of Cézanne -- August Rodin's women -- Maillol: the silent revolution -- VanGogh's last word -- Gustav Klimt on the swing of fashion -- European masters: -- Matisse, seen from the studio -- Picasso's progress -- Juan Gris: all the colour was on the canvas -- The trouble with "Primativism" -- Klee and Kandinsky side-by-side -- Otto Dix: "that's how it was" -- Soutine as artist and victim -- Painters and poets -- Art-world profiles: -- Joseph Duveen, manipulator extraordinaire -- Teriade, publisher genius -- Chick Austin: magician of the modern -- Inside the mind of André Malraux -- Gilbert de Botton: portrait of an art collector -- André Emmerich: portrait of an art dealer -- Fire under the ashes: an interview with Jan Krugier -- Post-war renewal: -- In Giacometti's studio -- Balthus, Klossowaki, Belmer: Eros unbound -- Jean Dubuffet: letters to an editor -- Maria Helena Viera da Silva's labyrinth -- Zoran mušič: in the silence of time -- The mid-century dilemma of Nicolas de Staël -- Avigdor Arikha: a hunger in the eye -- American visions: -- O'Keefe and Stieglitz: an American romance -- Jackson Pollock reconsidered -- The Bay Area artists -- Alexander Calder sets all forms free -- The achievementg of Joe Downing -- Bill Jacklin: a poet in Venice and New York -- School of London: -- is there a School of London? -- Francis Baacon: the self-portrayed -- A close rlook at Lucian Freud -- Frank Auerbach in Chiaroscuro -- Memories of David Hockney.

The critic Michael Peppiatt has been described by Art Newspaper as "the best art writer of his generation." For more than 50 years, he has written trenchant and lively dispatches from the center of the international art world. In this new volume of key works, Peppiatt gives his unique insight into the making, collection, display, and interpretation of modern art. Covering the whole spectrum of modern art - from pioneers such as Gustav Klimt and Chaim Soutine, to collectors and dealers who played a pivotal role in the modern art world, to artists such as Francis Bacon, Bill Jacklin, and Frank Auerbach, with whom he had close relationships - Peppiatt interweaves personal anecdote with critical judgment. Each text is accompanied by a new short introduction, written in Peppiatt's signature vivid and jargon-free style, in which he contextualizes his writings and reflects on significant moments in a lifetime of artistic engagement. This volume will provide readers with an exhilarating tour of 20th-century art. (Publisher)

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