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The Art of Rivalry
Sebastian Smee
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Kunst
Beschreibung
This is a story about rivalry among artists. Not the kind of rivalry that grows out of hatred and dislike, but rather, rivalry that emerges from admiration, friendship, love. The kind of rivalry that existed between Degas and Manet, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, and Freud and Bacon.
These were some of the most famous and creative relationships in the history of art, driving each individual to heights of creativity and inspiration - and provoking them to despair, jealousy and betrayal. Matisse's success threatened Picasso so much that his friends would throw darts at a portrait of his rival's beloved daughter Marguerite, shouting 'there's one in the eye for Matisse!' And Willem de Kooning's twisted friendship with Jackson Pollock didn't stop him taking up with his friend's lover barely a year after Pollock's fatal car crash.
In The Art of Rivalry, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee explores how, as both artists struggled to come into their own, they each played vital roles in provoking the other's creative breakthroughs - ultimately determining the course of modern art itself.
Rezensionen
Lively and engaging
One of those rare books that manages to show,convincingly, the exalted stuff of genius emerging from the low chaos of life
A magnificent book on the relationships at the roots of artistic genius. Smee offers a gripping tale of the fine line between friendship and competition, tracing how the ties that torment us most are often the ones that inspire us most.
A fascinating examination ... This is art history as human friction - one in the eye for those who think art is a high-minded enterprise.
The keynotes of Sebastian Smee's criticism have always included a fine feeling for the <i>what</i> of art - he knows how to evoke the way pictures really strike the eye - and an equal sense of the <i>how</i> of art: how art emerges from the background of social history. To these he now adds a remarkable capacity for getting down the <i>who</i> of art - the enigma of artist'
Elegant ... accomplished
Intriguing ... Smee writes beautifully ... tantalising
Modern art's major pairs of frenemies are a subject so fascinating, it'
