Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art [Hardcover]

Walter Sickert (Author), Anna Gruetzner Robins (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198172257 | ISBN-13: 978-0198172253 | Publication Date: March 8, 2001

Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was a major European artist and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, whose statements on art from the 1880s to the 1930s have been used by artists and writers for more than half a century. Containing over 400 entries, this collection offers new insight into Sickert as an artist and provides valuable information about other British artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Editorial Reviews

Review

`The collection is a most valuable reminder of Sickert's influence, elegance and originality.' Henry Hitchings, The Art Newspaper (Readers' Books of the Year)

`The Complete Writings on Art constitutes the most comprehensive selection of Sickert's criticism to date, including much previously unpublished material' Simon Grant, Times Literary Supplement

`Sickert's writings are immensely enjoyable. Reading them, one reflects on how little has changed in the art world' Simon Grant, Times Literary Supplement

`a real labour of love ... offering a great deal of new insight into Sickert as artist, polemicist and man-about-town. Brilliantly annotated, it's also great fun' Andy Barclay, Irish Times

`a tremendous achievement' James Beechey, The Charleston Magazine

`historians and general readers alike will be grateful for the wealth of fascinating information, not just on obscure nineteenth-century artists, but about music-hall characters, popular culture and contemporary slang too, buried in her footnotes' James Beechey, The Charleston Magazine

`With great diligence, she has retrieved a cache of early journalism mostly written between 1889 and 1897.' Richard Shone, Spectator

`One of the continuously engrossing themes of this book is ... long and painful emancipation from Whistler's excessive tastefulness as an artist and febrile egotism as a man.' Richard Shone, Spectator

`Robins's edition is of permanent value' Richard Shone, Spectator

About the Author

Anna Gruetzner Robins is a leading Sickert scholar, and contributed to the catalogue of the Royal Academy's Sickert exhibition held in 1992/3.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 744 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (March 8, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198172257
• ISBN-13: 978-0198172253
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,666,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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