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How to see : looking, talking, and thinking about art / David Salle.

By: Publication details: New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 2018.Description: x, 271 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780393354966
  • 0393354962
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Contents:
Part I. How to give form to an idea -- Alex Katz: the how and the what -- Amy Sillman: a modern-day action painter -- Christopher Wool: painting with its own megaphone -- The German miracle: the work of Sigmar Polke -- Robert Gober: the heart is not a metaphor -- Albert Oehlen: the good student -- Dana Schutz: a guy named Frank -- Roy Lichtenstein: change is hard -- The art of childhood: Jeff Koons at the Whitney -- John Baldessari's movie script series -- The success gene: Wade Guyton and Rosemarie Trockel
Part II. Being an artist -- Vito Acconci: the body artist -- The petite cinema of John Baldessari -- Karole Armitage and the art of collaboration -- The camera blinks -- Old guys painting -- The grapplers: Marsden Hartley, Philip Guston, and Clyfford Still -- Urs Fischer: waste management -- Jack Goldstein: clinging to the life raft -- Sad clown: the art of Mike Kelley -- Frank Stella at the Whitney -- Provincialism without a capital: the art of Thomas Houseago -- Frederick Tuten: the art of appropriation
Part III. Art in the world -- André Derain and Courbet's palette -- Picabia, c'est moi -- Baby's giant bean -- Lovely music: the art of Barbara Bloom -- Structure rising -- Piero della Francesca
Part IV. Pedagogy and polemics -- The '80s - What were they good for? A lecture delivered at the Milwaukee Museum of Art -- A talk for the first day of class -- Art is not a popularity contest: a commencement address given at the New York Academy of Art, 2011 -- Questions without answers for John Baldessari
Summary: In How to See, David Salle explores how art works and how it moves us, informs us and challenges us. This internationally renowned painter's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends and contemporaries -- from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein and Alex Katz -- How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their oeuvres.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Part I. How to give form to an idea -- Alex Katz: the how and the what -- Amy Sillman: a modern-day action painter -- Christopher Wool: painting with its own megaphone -- The German miracle: the work of Sigmar Polke -- Robert Gober: the heart is not a metaphor -- Albert Oehlen: the good student -- Dana Schutz: a guy named Frank -- Roy Lichtenstein: change is hard -- The art of childhood: Jeff Koons at the Whitney -- John Baldessari's movie script series -- The success gene: Wade Guyton and Rosemarie Trockel

Part II. Being an artist -- Vito Acconci: the body artist -- The petite cinema of John Baldessari -- Karole Armitage and the art of collaboration -- The camera blinks -- Old guys painting -- The grapplers: Marsden Hartley, Philip Guston, and Clyfford Still -- Urs Fischer: waste management -- Jack Goldstein: clinging to the life raft -- Sad clown: the art of Mike Kelley -- Frank Stella at the Whitney -- Provincialism without a capital: the art of Thomas Houseago -- Frederick Tuten: the art of appropriation

Part III. Art in the world -- André Derain and Courbet's palette -- Picabia, c'est moi -- Baby's giant bean -- Lovely music: the art of Barbara Bloom -- Structure rising -- Piero della Francesca

Part IV. Pedagogy and polemics -- The '80s - What were they good for? A lecture delivered at the Milwaukee Museum of Art -- A talk for the first day of class -- Art is not a popularity contest: a commencement address given at the New York Academy of Art, 2011 -- Questions without answers for John Baldessari

In How to See, David Salle explores how art works and how it moves us, informs us and challenges us. This internationally renowned painter's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends and contemporaries -- from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein and Alex Katz -- How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their oeuvres.