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El Arte de la Rivalidad/The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art

El Arte de la Rivalidad/The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art

          
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El prestigioso crítico y Premio Pulitzer Sebastian Smee compone en este libro una historia del arte contada a través de las vidas paralelas de ocho artistas.

Matisse - Picasso
Manet - Degas
Pollock - de Kooning
Freud - Bacon

Manet rasga un retrato de él y su mujer pintado por Degas. De Kooning pelea con Pollock y al poco de la muerte de este se junta con su amante, Ruth Kligman. Freud rompe con su mentor y amigo íntimo Bacon tras haberse inmiscuido sin querer en su relación con un amante violento...

La rivalidad es uno de los grandes motores de la innovación artística, pero es también uno de sus misterios más profundos. Casi todo artista que se precie ha sido arrastrado a algún tipo de enfrentamiento con sus contemporáneos, y Smee explora el modo en que la amistad y la traición estimulan la creatividad e incluso la búsqueda de la voz propia.

Reseñas:
«Apasionante. Smee es seductor y brillante, y sus virtudes como crítico son evidentes en cada línea.»
The New York Times

«Cada uno de los retratos que hace Smee de estos artistas es una auténtica joya.»
The Boston Globe

«Una combinación perfecta de gusto artístico y entendimiento humano, y una prosa cristalina.»
The New Yorker

«Hermosamente escrito. Ambicioso, impactante y del todo absorbente.»
Publishers Weekly

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Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists--Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon--whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are household names today. But to achieve what they did, each needed the influence of a contemporary--one who was equally ambitious but possessed sharply contrasting strengths and weaknesses. Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas were close associates whose personal bond frayed after Degas painted a portrait of Manet and his wife. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso swapped paintings, ideas, and influences as they jostled for the support of collectors like Leo and Gertrude Stein and vied for the leadership of a new avant-garde. Jackson Pollock's uninhibited style of "action painting" triggered a breakthrough in the work of his older rival, Willem de Kooning. After Pollock's sudden death in a car crash, de Kooning assumed Pollock's mantle and became romantically involved with his late friend's mistress. Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon met in the early 1950s, when Bacon was being hailed as Britain's most exciting new painter and Freud was working in relative obscurity. Their intense but asymmetrical friendship came to a head when Freud painted a portrait of Bacon, which was later stolen. Each of these relationships culminated in an early flashpoint, a rupture in a budding intimacy that was both a betrayal and a trigger for great innovation. Writing with the same exuberant wit and psychological insight that earned him a Pulitzer Prize for art criticism, Sebastian Smee explores here the way that coming into one's own as an artist--finding one's voice--almost always involves willfully breaking away from some intimate's expectations of who you are or ought to be.
About the Author: Sebastian Smee es crítico de arte del Boston Globe desde 2008. Obtuvo el Premio Pulitzer en 2011, tras años de quedar finalista. Empezó a trabajar en el Globe desde Sidney, donde había sido crítico de arte para The Australian. Antes de eso, vivió en Reino Unido, donde colaboraba con medios como The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, The Independent, Prospect y The Spectator. Ha sido coautor de cinco libros sobre Lucian Freud. Da clases de escritura de no ficción en el Wellesley College.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788430618620
  • Publisher: Taurus
  • Publisher Imprint: Taurus
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Series Title: Spanish
  • Weight: 575 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8430618627
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jun 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 147 mm


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