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Competition was key to the astonishing creativity of the Italian Renaissance. Nowhere was this truer than in Florence, where, in 1504, officials commissioned paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and...
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Take a long, close look at a masterpiece. As important as the details of subject and technique is the focused, attentive act of looking itself. This is part of the passionate and well reasoned defense...
View ArticleAlways Looking - John Updike
I love to read John Updike’s essays, especially those on artists, which were collected in two volumes, Just Looking (1989) and Still Looking (2005). The posthumous companion, Always Looking: Essays on...
View ArticleThe Modern Art Cookbook - Mary Ann Caws
Artists as well as cooks know that presentation is everything, and in the gallery of pleasures that is The Modern Art Cookbook (Reaktion, $39), Mary Ann Caws pairs visual and literary evocations of...
View ArticleThe Brilliant History of Color in Art - Victoria Finlay
With commentary as elegant as the images are sumptuous, The Brilliant History of Color in Art (Getty, $24.95) shows its own brilliance in myriad ways. Just as “color” indicates a spectrum of shades,...
View ArticleSix Drawing Lessons - William Kentridge
In 2012, South African artist William Kentridge delivered the Norton Lectures, joining a list of great artists, writers, and musicians. Each of these presentations, together called Six Drawing Lessons...
View Article33 Artists in 3 Acts - Sarah Thornton
If meeting 33 Artists in 3 Acts (W.W. Norton, $26.95) seems dizzying, relax. As introduced by Sarah Thornton, author of the acclaimed Seven Days in the Art World, each of these creators comes across as...
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