The Writing of Art
May 2012
Trade Paperback · 120 Pages
$16.00 U.S. · $17.50 CAN
ISBN 9781906548629
Pushkin Press
Trade Paperback · 120 Pages
$16.00 U.S. · $17.50 CAN
ISBN 9781906548629
Pushkin Press
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Description
This collection of essays offers different ways of seeing twentieth-century art via the medium of aesthetics. Each essay explores a different vision: Pablo Picasso's Mercure, Paul Klee's work from the thirties, Yves Klein's concept of the Void, Ed Ruscha's gunpowder drawings, and Cy Twombly's Bacchus paintings. Having curated exhibitions on the majority of these artists, Olivier Berggruen's acquaintance with their work is profound, and his approach both scholarly and highly intimate.
Olivier Berggruen lives in New York and has curated museum exhibitions devoted to Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Yves Klein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Ed Ruscha.
Olivier Berggruen lives in New York and has curated museum exhibitions devoted to Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Yves Klein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Ed Ruscha.
About the Author
Olivier Berggruen: Olivier Berggruen was born in Switzerland in 1963. He grew up in Paris and then studied Art History at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) before going on to do further research at the Courtauld Institute in London. He has curated museum exhibitions devoted to artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Yves Klein, Michel Basquiat and Ed Ruscha. He lives in New York with his wife.