How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art

David Salle

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"David Salle is a remarkably enthusiastic guide who genuinely loves art, and it is bracing to be in the company of one who has maintained his capacity for wonder after more than four decades of activity in the art world." Times Literary Supplement

How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends and contemporaries from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their oeuvres.

Salle writes with humour and verve, replacing the jargon of art theory with precise and evocative descriptions that help the reader develop a personal and intuitive engagement with art. The result: a master class on how to see with an artist's eye.

Review

"Lovely to read...[How to See] is serious but never solemn, alert to pleasure, a boulevardier's crisp stroll through the visual world."

--The New York Times

"If John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a classic of art criticism, looking at the 'what' of art, then David Salle's How to See is the artist's reply, a brilliant series of reflections on how artists think when they make their work. The 'how' of art has perhaps never been better explored."

--Salman Rushdie

"Sharp insights and an affable tone make this collection equivalent to a hearty discussion with a mentor recommended for anyone interested in visual arts." --Publishers Weekly

"David Salle has a sharp, thrilling eye and an uncanny ability to reorder and make new the act of seeing. These perceptive, far-ranging essays are drawn from deep knowledge and experience reading this book feels like having a conversation about art with the smartest person in the room." --Emma Cline, author of The Girls

About the Author

David Salle's paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington, DC, the Los Angeles County Art Museum, Tate Modern, the National Galerie Berlin, and many others. He lives in New York City.

Podrobnosti

Autor	David Salle
Vydavatel	W. W. Norton & Company
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	288
Formát	14 × 21 cm
EAN	9780393354966
Rok vydání	2018
Edice	Encyklopedie a příručky Společnost a společenské vědy Teorie umění Umění a fotografie všeobecně