The Art Of Rivalry. Four Friendships, Betrayals, And Breakthroughs In Modern Art

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Text Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 390 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Genius, friend, rival: this is the story of four pairs of artists whose intense relationships spurred and shaped their art. Matisse and Picasso. Manet and Degas. Bacon and Freud. De Kooning and Pollock. Eight of the most significant modern artists; four pairs linked by friendship and a shared spirit of competitiveness. But in each case the relationship had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and a beginning, a break that led to audacious creative innovations. Absorbing, informed and provocative, Sebastian Smees The Art of Rivalry takes us to heart of each of these relationships. It offers revelatory insights into the ways in which these major artists influenced and changed each otherand into their ultimate quest to be unique, original, inimitable; to acquire the solitude, the singularity, of greatness.

ISBN: 9781925240351