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OverviewIn the course of a career spent thinking and writing about art, the critic Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world in pursuit of first-hand encounters with art and artists. Gayford’s journeys, often to rather inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous meetings and outcomes, which he makes as much part of each story as the final destination. Ever amusing, informative and self-deprecating, Gayford recounts trips to see Brancusi’s Endless Column in Romania, prehistoric cave art in France, the museum island of Naoshima in Japan, the Judd Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and an installation by Roni Horn in the far northwest of Iceland. Other journeys are to meet artists – Robert Rauschenberg in New York, Marina Abramovic in Venice, Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris – or are made in the company of artists, such as a trip to Beijing with Gilbert & George. These encounters provide insights into the way artists approach and think about their art, and reveal the importance of their personal environment to their practice. They also affect Gayford’s own evolving ideas over a lifetime of passionate engagement with art. A perceptive and knowledgeable companion, Gayford shares the highs and lows of cultural travel, and makes a convincing case that, where art is concerned, only being there will do. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Martin GayfordPublisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd ISBN: 9780500295922ISBN 10: 0500295921 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 01 January 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction * Being There: 1. Brancusi's Endless Column; 2. In the Land of the Dancing Lord; 3. Marina Abramovic * Predecessors, Rivals, Successors: 4. Cro-Magnon Days; 5. Jenny Saville * Renaissance Masters, Then and Now: 6. Lorenzo Lotto in Loreto; 7. The Sistine Chapel; 8. Jenny Holzer and Leonardo's Lady * Art and Landscapes: 9. Iceland with Roni Horn; 10. Marfa, Texas; 11. Anselm Kiefer * Way Out East: 12. With Gilbert & George in Beijing; 13. Naoshima; 14. Travelling in Chinese Mountains * Slow and Fast Looking: 15. Cartier-Bresson in Paris; 16. Ellsworth Kelly; 17. Robert Frank * Change and Necessity: 18. Gerhard Richter * 19. Robert RauschenbergReviews'A charming short book about [Gayford’s] peregrinations and how different contexts have affected his thinking about the art and the artists ' - Michael Prodger’s Books of the Year, Sunday Times 'The experience of reading Gayford’s travelogue is buoyed along by his crisp, lucid prose … In its understated way, the book offers a kind of modern-day equivalent to Herodotus – with Gayford dutifully trudging the earth, reporting on things both incidental and profound' - Times Literary Supplement 'The experience of reading Gayford's travelogue is buoyed along by his crisp, lucid prose ... In its understated way, the book offers a kind of modern-day equivalent to Herodotus - with Gayford dutifully trudging the earth, reporting on things both incidental and profound' - Times Literary Supplement 'A charming short book about [Gayford's] peregrinations and how different contexts have affected his thinking about the art and the artists ' - Michael Prodger's Books of the Year, Sunday Times 'A charming short book about [Gayford's] peregrinations and how different contexts have affected his thinking about the art and the artists ' - Michael Prodger's Books of the Year, Sunday Times 'The experience of reading Gayford's travelogue is buoyed along by his crisp, lucid prose ... In its understated way, the book offers a kind of modern-day equivalent to Herodotus - with Gayford dutifully trudging the earth, reporting on things both incidental and profound' - Times Literary Supplement Author InformationMartin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator and the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable and Michelangelo. He is the author of Man with a Blue Scarf, Rendez-vous with Art and A Bigger Message. He has collaborated with David Hockney on A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney and A History of Pictures, and has co-written a volume of travels and conversations with Philippe de Montebello: Rendez-vous with Art. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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