EAN: 9780500021965

ARTISTS LIVES - MICHAEL PEPPIATT GEBUNDEN

Engaging encounters  personal anecdotes and jargon-free critical insights into some of the
liveliest creative minds in modern art  by an international art world insider. Praised by the
Art Newspaper as `the best art writer of his generation¿  Michael Peppiatt has encountered many
European modern artists over more than fifty years. This selection of some of his best
biographical writing covers a wide spectrum of modern art  from Van Gogh and Pierre Bonnard  to
personal conversations with painter Sonia Delaunay  artist Dora Maar  who was Picassös lover in
the 1930s and 1940s  and Francis Bacon  perhaps the most famous of the many artists with whom
Peppiatt has formed personal friendships. Michael Peppiatt¿s lively  engaging writing takes us
into the company of many notable art-world personalities  such as the Catalan painter Antoni
Tàpies  whom he visits in his studio  and moments of disillusion  such as his meeting with the
self-mythologizing artist Balthus. Art criticism blends with anecdote: riding with Lucian Freud
in his Bentley  drinking with Bacon in Soho  discussing Picassös trousers with David Hockney...
This collection of Peppiatt¿s most perceptive texts includes under-recognized artists  such as
Dachau survivor Zoran Music  or Montenegrin artist Dado  whose retrospective Peppiatt curated
at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Remarkably varied in their scope and lucidly written for a general
reader  these selected essays not only provide us with perceptive commentary and acute critical
judgment  they also give a unique personal insight into some of the greatest creative minds of
the modern era.

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