About Modern Art

Critical Essays 1948-2000 (Revised Edition)

David Sylvester author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage

Published:10th Jan '02

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The revised edition of David Sylvester's highly acclaimed collection of essays on twentieth century artists, with a new final section of eight new essays.

About Modern Art is the long-awaited collection of David Sylvester's essays on twentieth-century artists. This is not dry, remote, academic criticism: it has an immediacy and passion which leave one with an inspiring sense of the relevance and importance of art to life.About Modern Art is the long-awaited collection of David Sylvester's essays on twentieth-century artists. This is not dry, remote, academic criticism: it has an immediacy and passion which leave one with an inspiring sense of the relevance and importance of art to life.

Sylvester's real achievement-consists of an almost unrivalled power to gaze, and to find language to express the rewards of intensive contemplation -- Frank Kermode * London Review of Books *
Sylvester lists the qualities that make a painter great: "fearlessness; a profound originality, a total absorption in what obsesses him, and above all, a certain authority and gravity". All these apply in equal measure to himself, compounded with vast scholarship, wit and modesty -- Elspeth Barker * Sunday Times *
David Sylvester is in many ways the most distinguished critical writer Britain has produced since Roger Fry -- Patrick Reyntiens * Tablet *
Sylvester is not only the foremost writer on art: he is also a marvellous prose stylist and an outstanding mind. Original, erudite, witty and moving -- Cressida Connolly * Spectator *
Everybody interested in the subject...will want this book -- Martin Gayford * Sunday Telegraph *

ISBN: 9780712605632

Dimensions: 234mm x 153mm x 38mm

Weight: 698g

544 pages