The Artist's Voice: Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists [Paperback]

Katherine Kuh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 14, 2000

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.

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

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (January 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0306809052
• ISBN-13: 978-0306809057
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,112,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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