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Interviews with American Artists

Title : Interviews with American Artists
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Rating : 4.32 (893 Votes)
Asin : 0300092040
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 320 Pages
Publish Date : 2013-09-29
Language : English

Others, like those with Carl Andre, Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, and Jeff Koons, speak straight from today. David 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. Conversations from the 1960s vividly conjure up the New York art scene immediately after the war, when the newly arrived Europeans met the Americans who had worked together in the Depression, their different traditions colliding and fusing as they walked the city, talked and worked together. 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. 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.. This astounding book includes 21 interviews, recorded over the past forty years, with leading American artists. Together they illuminate all the great developments in American art

A Customer said required reading. This book is a treasure: a collection of previously unpublished interviews with luminaries of postwar American art, conducted by a sensitive master of the form. David Sylvester interviewed only artists he knew; his familiarity with their work, and his profound understanding of their aesthetic dilemmas, is evident throughout.Most of the interviews in the volume were conducted between 1960 and 1967, and subsequently broadcast over the BBC. The usual "New York School" suspects are present and accounted f. Their own words Fantastic interviews, Sylvester playing the role of critic as professional fan, asking well-informed questions and letting the artists speak for themselves. Ab/Ex, Pop, Minimal, 80's, all these artists seem remarkably similar when discussing their creative processes rather than the specific nature of their work. I learned new respect for artists whose work I still don't love. I had my high opinions of others re-confirmed, or sometimes realized their art speaks better than they do. These interviews wer. "The friend of every artist's" according to Reich Claude. Having painters talk about their art is a difficult exercise. Some artists are notoriously reluctant, not because they have nothing to say, but because they think that once the work is out there it is up to the viewer to receive it with an open mind. David Sylvester manages to overcome this obstacle and makes us understand how each artist works, what he means or thinks when his brush meets the canvas or when his hands meet the metal. This is an irreplaceable book for anyone interested in modern Americ

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. From Publishers Weekly Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Phillip Guston, Jasper Johns and many other luminaries of postwar 20th-century art were part of a celebrated series of interviews British art critic David Sylvester (Looking at Giacometti) recorded for the BBC during the 1960s. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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