The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations
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Bestselling author of Modernists & Mavericks Martin Gayford recounts some of the extraordinary journeys he has made in the name of art.
In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayford’s journeys, often to fairly inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous encounters and outcomes, which he makes as much a part of the story as the final destination. Entertaining and informative, Gayford includes trips to see Brancusi’s Endless Column in Romania, prehistoric cave art in France, the museum island of Naoshima in Japan, the Judd Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and a Roni Horn work in Iceland.
Interwoven with these accounts are journeys to meet artists – Robert Rauschenberg in New York, Marina Abramovic in Venice, Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris – or travels with artists, such as a trip to Beijing with Gilbert & George. These encounters not only provide insights into the way artists approach and think about their art but also reveal the importance of their personal environments. And in the process, Gayford discusses how these meetings have impacted on his own evolving ideas and tastes.
Review
A passionate globe-trot through the history of art and art appreciation... As a travel writer, Gayford is an exceptional guide... [His] passion is contagious and will conjure in readers dreams of travel. --.
The text of this informative and entertaining book is comprehensively balanced, fair, lucid and subtly witty --Spectator
A thumping good read --Art Book Review
An entertaining travelogue detailing the pleasures and pitfalls of his profession ... the book is very handsomely produced and includes beautiful colour illustrations --Literary Review
For anyone with the slightest interest in the visual arts this is a charming, disparate, readable collection distilled from decades of devotion to art --Arts Desk
An enjoyable book ... Gayford has a gift for witty writing that makes the anecdotes shine --Art Info
A very attractive book --World of Interiors
Gayford is a great travelling companion. Where art criticism can be pompous, wordy and jargon-filled, here he s warm, honest, confiding, intelligent, yes, but never talking down to his reader --Shiny New Books
The experience of reading Gayford s travelogue is buoyed along by his crisp, lucid prose In its understated way, the book offers a kind of modern-day equivalent to Herodotus with Gayford dutifully trudging the earth, reporting on things both incidental and profound --Times Literary Supplement
Gayford is a great travelling companion. Where art criticism can be pompous, wordy and jargon-filled, here he s warm, honest, confiding, intelligent, yes, but never talking down to his reader --Shiny New Books
A charming short book about [Gayford s] peregrinations and how different contexts have affected his thinking about the art and the artists --Michael Prodger s Books of the Year, Sunday Times
An admirable book one of [Gayford s] talents is the ability to convey the essence of an artist s work, a style or an art movement in clear, concise passages that contain no jargon --Country Life
Incredibly interesting and comprehensive five stars --How It Works
About the Author
Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator and the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable and Michelangelo. He is the author of Man with a Blue Scarf, Rendez-vous with Art and A Bigger Message. He has collaborated with David Hockney on A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney and A History of Pictures, and has co-written a volume of travels and conversations with Philippe de Montebello: Rendez-vous with Art.
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