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Portraits : talking with artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and elsewhere / Michael Kimmelman.

Publication details: New York : Random House, 1999.Description: xviii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0375754830
  • 0679452192
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Contents:
Balthus -- Elizabeth Murray -- Francis Bacon -- Richard Serra -- Kiki Smith -- Roy Lichtenstein -- Lucian Freud -- Susan Rothenberg and Bruce Nauman -- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Cindy Sherman -- Wayne Thiebaud -- Leon Golub and Nancy Spero -- Brice Marden -- Jacob Lawrence -- Hans Haacke -- Chuck Close.
Summary: In Portraits, Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic for The New York Times, speaks with eighteen important artists in front of some of the world's best art. His engaging, informal profiles of Balthus, Cindy Sherman, Chuck Close, Wayne Thiebaud, Brice Marden, Kiki Smith and others record not only what they said about the art they chose to look at in various museums and elsewhere but also what they revealed about themselves and their work in the process.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Balthus -- Elizabeth Murray -- Francis Bacon -- Richard Serra -- Kiki Smith -- Roy Lichtenstein -- Lucian Freud -- Susan Rothenberg and Bruce Nauman -- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Cindy Sherman -- Wayne Thiebaud -- Leon Golub and Nancy Spero -- Brice Marden -- Jacob Lawrence -- Hans Haacke -- Chuck Close.

In Portraits, Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic for The New York Times, speaks with eighteen important artists in front of some of the world's best art. His engaging, informal profiles of Balthus, Cindy Sherman, Chuck Close, Wayne Thiebaud, Brice Marden, Kiki Smith and others record not only what they said about the art they chose to look at in various museums and elsewhere but also what they revealed about themselves and their work in the process.