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Informationen zum Autor Richard Dorment was born in the US and studied at Princeton and Columbia before joining the staff at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1986 he became the chief art critic of The Daily Telegraph in London, and in 1992 he won the Hawthornden Prize for Art Criticism. In 2000 he was named ?Critic of the Year’ in the British Press awards, and in 2014 he won the Holland Prize for his review of the re-opened Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He was awarded the CBE in 2014 for his services to the arts. He retired in 2015. He has written several exhibition and museum collection catalogs, and academic books, but this is the first collection of his reviews to be published. Klappentext An extraordinary collection of over 100 essays which distill and commemorate some of the finest and most memorable art exhibitions of the last three decades. Ranging from early prehistoric art of the Ice Age to the performance art of today, and taking in nearly all the significant art in between, the book is an astonishingly readable and accessible introduction to the work of the world's finest artists. Richard Dorment was the art critic of London's Daily Telegraph. He wrote almost every week about the most significant art exhibitions throughout the UK, but also in Paris, Amsterdam, New York, and Washington. Zusammenfassung Over 100 essays by the art critic of the Daily Telegraph about significant art exhibitions throughout the UK! and in Paris! Amsterdam! New York and Washington! ranging from early prehistoric art of the Ice Age to the performance art of today! Inhaltsverzeichnis PARTIAL TOC:1.Ancient and Non-European ArtIce Age ArtThe Painted Tomb-Chapel of NebamunEgypt's Dazzling SunKingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West AfricaAztecsThe Padshahnama2.European Art before 1800 Pieter Bruegel the Elder Caravaggio: the Final Years Johannes VermeerJean-Baptiste Siméon ChardinGoya's Portrait of the Condesa de Chinchón Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760-18303. British Art before 1800Alexander PopeFrançois Roubiliac and the PortraitWilliam HogarthThomas GainsboroughVases and VolcanoesThomas JonesArt On the Line Swagger Portraits4.Nineteenth-Century Europe and AmericaFierce Friends: Artists and Animals 1750-1900Light!Jean-Baptiste CamilleCorotChristen KøbkeAmerican SublimeManet and the Sea Manet's Luncheon Winslow HomerCézanne: The Card Players Renoir at the Theatre Henri RousseauThomas Eakins Gustave Caillebotte Vincent Van Gogh John Singer Sargent Georges SeuratImpressionism: Painting Quickly in France 1860-1890 Henri de Toulouse-LautrecVilhelm Hammershøi Symbolist Landscape 1900: Art at the Crossroads5.Nineteenth-Century BritainThomas LawrenceTurner and the SeaTurner's Fighting TemeraireLate Turner John Constable Edwin LandseerWilliam Bell Scott Edward Burne-Jones Frank HollFairy Paintings Aubrey BeardsleyThe Aesthetic Movement The Age of Enchantment6. PhotographyLa Divine Comtesse Eadweard Muybridge Julia Margaret Cameron7.Twentieth-Century EuropeMatisseMatissePicassoMatisse: the Cut-OutsMondrian: Nature to Abstraction The Stein FamilyPicasso: the Early Years Georges BraqueJoan Miró René Magritte7.Twentieth-Century America American Art in the 20th Century Alexander CalderGeorge Bellows Arshile Gorky Jackson Pollock8. Post-War America Roy Lichtenstein Cy TwomblyThe Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, FashionAndy Warhol: Outer and Inner SpaceJasper Johns Brice Marden Richard Serra Susan Hiller Bruce Naumann Fluxus9. Twentieth-Century BritainAlgernon Newton The SitwellsStanley Spencer Herbert Read Douglas CooperThe Art that Dare Not Speak its NamePicasso and Modern British ArtNeo-Romantics10. Post-War and Contemporary InternationalModern ArtOn KawaraEva Hesse Bas Jan Ader Jeff Wall Gary HillFrancesco Clemente [Sophie Calle]Felix Gonzales-TorresMatthew Barney (Il Tempo del Postino)Olafur EliassonFrancis Alÿs11.Post-War and Contemporary BritainDavid Hockney Gil...
