Présentation de l'éditeur :
The best of Tom Lubbock, one of Britain's most intelligent, outspoken and revelatory art critics, is collected here for the first time.
There are electrifying insights - using Hitchcock's Suspicion to explore the lighting effects in a Zurbarán still life, imagining three short films to tease out the meanings of El Greco's Boy Lighting a Candle - and cool judgements - how Vuillard's genius is confined to a single decade, when he worked at home, why Ingres is really 'an exciting wierdo'.
Ranging with passionate perspicacity over eight hundred years of Western art, whether it's Giotto's raging vices, Guston's 'slobbish, squidgy' pinks, Géricault's pile of truncated limbs or Gwen John's Girl in a Blue Dress, Tom Lubbock writes with immediacy and authority about the fifty works which most gripped his imagination.
Biographie de l'auteur :
TOM LUBBOCK was chief art critic of the Independent from 1997 until his death in 2011. He wrote long essays for the journal Modern Painters, and won the Hawthorden prize for art criticism in 1993. His collages for the Saturday editions of the Independent between 1999 and 2004 were exhibited to widespread acclaim in 2010 at The Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
Laura Cumming is the art critic of the Observer.
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