Grove Book of Art Writing: Brilliant Words on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst

Title: Grove Book of Art Writing: Brilliant Words on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst Author: Martin Gayford ISBN: 9780802137203 Publisher: Grove Press Published: 2000 Binding: Paperback Language: English Publisher Description: Discussing the visual arts successfully in words is often held to be an impossible task. In fact it is merely difficult. And since the days of the ancient Greeks, many writers of all kinds have taken up the challenge -- not only art critics but novelists, poets, gossips, artists, and essayists. In The Grove Book of Art Writing, Martin Gayford and Karen Wright have collected the best and most lively attempts to pin it down, in a single-volume cornucopia of writing on art. From Vasari and Freud on why Mona Lisa smiles, to Adolf Hitler on the degeneracy of modernism, to Picasso on how to measure the depiction of the female body, art historians, art critics, artists, as well as the aforementioned weigh