ISBN: 9780300092042

With his expertise, sympathy, and provocative style, he is unique in his ability to talk freely with influential artists. Abstract art was then new and astonishing, and it remains radical… Mehr…

With his expertise, sympathy, and provocative style, he is unique in his ability to talk freely with influential artists. Abstract art was then new and astonishing, and it remains radical and mysterious, a state Sylvesters careful querying of the likes of sculptors Nevelson and Smith and ers Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Rauschenberg richly illuminates as his subjects reveal the rich complexity of their influences, intents, and techniques. Product DescriptDavid Sylvester has been called the best living writer in English about modern art (Daily Telegraph). With his expertise, sympathy, and provocative style, he is unique in his ability to talk freely with influential artists. This astounding book includes 21 interviews, re over the past forty years, with leading American artists. Together they illuminate all the great developments in American art. Here are the views of David Smith, Richard Serra, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, and more. Conversats from the 1960s vividly conjure up the New York art scene immediately after the , when the newly arrived Europeans met the Americans who had worked together in the Depress, their different tradits colliding and fusing as they walked the city, talked and worked together. Others, like those with Carl Andre, Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, and Jeff Koons, speak straight from today. No one but Sylvester could have produced this intricate collage, this chorus of voices that blend to create one of the most revealing and unusual histories of American art in the twentieth century.From Publishers WeeklyRobert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Phillip Guston, Jasper Johns and many other luminaries of post 20th-century art were part of a celebrated series of interviews British art critic David Sylvester (Looking at Giacometti) re for the BBC during the 1960s. Transcribed, edited and collected here as Interviews with American Artists (along with a handful of more recent interviews with Jeff Koons, Alex Katz, Cy Twombly, and others), the interviews transport readers back to a moment of boundless artistic confidence and possibility.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Informat, Inc.From BooklistSylvester, an intrepid and perceptive art critic and author of celebrated books on Giacometti and Francis Bacon, conducted a series of in-depth interviews with cutting-edge American artists for the BBC in the 1960s. Most of his conversats with such trailblazers as Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, and Jasper Johns have never been published, and all make for fascinating reading as artists who prefer to express themselves with line, color, and form struggle to find words to describe their profoundly intuitive aesthetic choices, often to stunning effect. Abstract art was then new and astonishing, and it remains radical and mysterious, a state Sylvesters careful querying of the likes of sculptors Nevelson and Smith and ers Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Rauschenberg richly illuminates as his subjects reveal the rich complexity of their influences, intents, and techniques. A series of recent interviews with Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, and Carl Andre, among others, highlights the ongoing vitality and of American art, and all that readers will miss in the wake of Sylvesters recent death.Donna SeamanCopyright ? American Library Associat. All rights reservedReviewThe interviews transport readers back to a moment of boundless artistic confidence and possibility. --Publishers WeeklyFrom the Publisher in the United Kingdom, Europe, and CanadaAbout the AuthorDavid Sylvester is an internatally renowned art critic who in 1993 became the first art critic to receive a Golden L at the Venice Biennale. His works include the universally acclaimed Looking at Giacometti and Interviews with Francis Bacon. Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Bestes Angebot, [LT: BestOffer], Edition Description: 1st, Binding: Hardcover, Publication Date: 01-11-2001, Sprache: English, Publication Year: 01-11-2001, Country of Origin: USA, United States, Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details: ERGODE, Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1, Dimensions (LxWxH) - Inches: 1.5X9.2X6, ISBN-10: 0300092040, ISBN-13: 9780300092042, SKU: SONG0300092040, Buchtitel: Interviews with American Artists, Yale University Press<

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New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black 1/4 cloth, light blue paper covered boards,… Mehr…

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black 1/4 cloth, light blue paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Dust jacket shows slight surface rubbing, now in mylar. 1st ptg. x,387 pp., illus. Interviews include David Smith, Nevelson, Gottlieb, Newman, de Kooning, Kline, Motherwell, Guston, Frankenthaler, Cage, Rauschenberg, Johns, Twombly, Stella, Oldenbuerg, Lichtenstein, Katz, Robert Morris, Carl Andre, Serra, Koons.., Yale University Press, 2001, 4.5<