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	• Interviews with American Artists David Sylvester Yale University Press, 2001 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Most of the interviews in the volume were conducted between 1960 and 1967, and subsequently broadcast over the BBC. The usual "New York School" suspects are present and accounted for: de Kooning, Kline, Newman, Gottlieb, Johns, Rauschenberg, Motherwell, Frankenthaler, David Smith, et alia ... More recent interviewees include Cy Twombly, Jeff Koons, Carl Andre, and Richard Serra. Conducted over a three-year period, the interviews with Serra concerning his Torqued Ellipses are especially worthwhile. Additional biographical notes by Jonathan Shirland round out the book.

The interviews are characteristically intelligent, focused, and perceptive. One would expect nothing less from David Sylvester, whose probing interviews with Francis Bacon remain a key touchpoint for those interested in that modern artist's process. His slim book on Giacometti is nothing short of brilliant. The lengthier interviews contained herein further demonstrate the breadth of Sylvester's understanding -- and deepen our sense of loss at his recent passing.

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Having painters talk about their art is a difficult exercise. Some artists are notoriously reluctant, not because they have nothing to say, but because they think that once the work is out there it is up to the viewer to receive it with an open mind. David Sylvester manages to overcome this obstacle and makes us understand how each artist works, what he means or thinks when his brush meets the canvas or when his hands meet the metal. This is an irreplaceable book for anyone interested in modern American art.



David Sylvester has been called "the best living writer in English about modern art" (Daily Telegraph). With his expertise, sympathy, and provocative style, he is unique in his ability to talk freely with influential artists. This astounding book includes 21 interviews, recorded over the past forty years, with leading American artists. Together they illuminate all the great developments in American art. Here are the views of David Smith, Richard Serra, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, and more. Conversations from the 1960s vividly conjure up the New York art scene immediately after the war, when the newly arrived Europeans met the Americans who had worked together in the Depression, their different traditions colliding and fusing as they walked the city, talked and worked together. Others, like those with Carl Andre, Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, and Jeff Koons, speak straight from today. No one but Sylvester could have produced this intricate collage, this chorus of voices that blend to create one of the most revealing and unusual histories of American art in the twentieth century.

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