Great Works: 50 Paintings Explored

ISBN: 0711232830

Author: Lubbock, Tom

Condition: Used

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 Hitchcocks Suspicion to explore the lighting effects in a Zurbarn still life, imagining three short films to tease out the meanings of El Grecos 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 Giottos raging vices, Gustons slobbish, squidgy pinks, Gericaults pile of truncated limbs or Gwen Johns Girl in a Blue Dress, Tom Lubbock writes with immediacy and authority about the fifty works which most gripped his imagination.