Full Description
The best of Tom Lubbock, one of Britain's most intelligent, outspoken and revelatory art critics, is collected here for the first time. There are electrifying insights - using Hitchcock's Suspicion to explore the lighting effects in a Zurbaran still life, imagining three short films to tease out the meanings of El Greco's Boy Lighting a Candle - and cool judgements - how Vuillard's genius is confined to a single decade, when he worked at home, why Ingres is really 'an exciting wierdo'. Ranging with passionate perspicacity over eight hundred years of Western art, whether it's Giotto's raging vices, Guston's 'slobbish, squidgy' pinks, Gericault's pile of truncated limbs or Gwen John's Girl in a Blue Dress, Tom Lubbock writes with immediacy and authority about the fifty works which most gripped his imagination.
Contents
Introduction El Greco - Boy Lighting a Candle, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples Francesco Zurbaran - Still Life with Jars, Prado, Madrid Kasimir Malevich - Red House, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg Joan Miro - The Hunter, Catalan Landscape, Museum of Modern Art, New York Johannes Vermeer - View of Delft, Mauritshuis, The Hague Giovanni Francesco Caroto - Young Boy holding a Child's Drawing, Verona Philipp Otto Runge - The Child in the Meadow, Kunsthalle, Hamburg Vincent van Gogh - Wheatfield with Lark, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Paul Nash - Event on the Downs, Government Art Collection, UK Eugene Delacroix - Still Life with Lobsters, Louvre, Paris Jacopo Tintoretto - Paradise, Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid Peter Doig - Concrete Cabin (West Side), Private collection John Constable - Study of Clouds, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Francis Bacon - Sand Dune, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel Peter Paul Rubens - The Dying Seneca, Alte Pinakothek, Munich Homore Daumier - The Burden, Private collection Edgar Degas - Combing the Hair, National Gallery, Oslo Gustav Klimt - Water Nymphs, Zentralsparkasse der Gemeinde Wien, Vienna Masaccio - The Expulsion from Paradise, Sta Maria del Carmine, Florence Luca Signorelli - The Resurrection of the Flesh, Orvieto Cathedral, Umbria Theodore Gericault - Study of Truncated Limbs, Musee Fabre, Montpellier Philip Guston - Painter's Table, National Gallery of Art, Washington Rembrandt van Rijn - Lucretia, National Gallery of Art, Washington Vittore Carpaccio - The Apparition of 10,000 Martyrs, Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice Gerhard Richter - 1024 Colours, Centre Pompidou, Paris Bernardo Bellotto - The Ruins of the Old Kreuzkirche in Dresden, Kunsthaus, Zurich Nicolas Poussin - Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion, Walker Gallery, Liverpool Juan Sanchez-Cotan - Still Life with Quince, Cabbage ... , San Diego Museum of Art Rene Magritte - Swift Hope, Kunsthalle, Hamburg Albrecht Altdorfer - Alexander's Victory, Alte Pinakothek, Munich Giovanni di Paolo - The Beheading of St John the Baptist, Art Institute of Chicago Fernand Leger - Holly Leaf on Red Background, Private collection Winslow Homer - Right and Left, National Gallery of Art, Washington Francisco de Goya - The Dog, Prado, Madrid Paulus Potter - The Wolfhound, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg Camille Pissarro - Place du Theatre Francaise, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Caspar David Friedrich - On the Sailing Boat, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg Giovanni Bellini - Madonna with Saints, San Zaccaria, Venice Edward Hopper - Early Sunday Morning, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Henry Fuseli - Silence, Kunsthaus, Zurich Gwen John - Girl in a Blue Dress, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff Edouard Vuillard - Interior, Mother and Sister of the Artist, MoMA, New York Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Madame Moitessier, National Gallery, Washington James Barry - Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida, Sheffield City Art Galleries Giotto di Bondone - Inconstancy, Anger, Despair from Vices, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua Pietro Longhi - The Presentation, Louvre, Paris Antonio Pollaiuolo - Apollo and Daphne, National Gallery, London Jackson Pollock - Stenographic Figure, Museum of Modern Art, New York Jeremy Moon - Hoop-La, Tate Gallery, London Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - The Bed, Musee d'Orsay, Paris Index Picture Credits
