The Artist's Voice: Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists - Softcover

Kuh, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306809052 ISBN 13: 9780306809057

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2000

Synopsis

To quote Robert Hughes, ”All critics concerned with American painting will be Kuh's debtors from now on.” Interviewed in the 1960s, the painters and sculptors Katharine Kuh spoke with provide insights into their work that remain illuminating and relevant. The author allows the artists to comment in their own words on their inspirations, philosophies, and creative processes and to debunk common myths about their work. Sometimes the results are surprising: abstract painter Josef Albers confesses to being a realist, while realist painter Ivan Albright firmly denies the charge. Marcel Duchamp professes surprise over the controversy stirred by his Nude Descending a Staircase, and Edward Hopper insists that his supposed themes of loneliness and nostalgia are entirely unintentional.

About this title

About the Author:

Katharine Kuh (1904–1994) was the first curator of modern painting and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, an art editor of the Saturday Review, and the author of Léger, Art Has Many Faces, Break-Up: The Core of Modern Art, and The Open Eye: In Pursuit of Art.

Review:

"This book is important and valuable now, and will be even more so as the years go by." -- Chicago Sunday Tribune

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0306809052
• ISBN 13: 9780306809057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272