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Lawrence Gowing : Selected Writings on Art, Paperback / softback Book

Lawrence Gowing : Selected Writings on Art Paperback / softback

Edited by Sarah Whitfield

Paperback / softback

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As one of the leading critical voices on art of the postwar years, polymath Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991) combined a passion for close visual involvement with formidable literary skills.

Edited by art historian Sarah Whitfield, four decades of Gowing's writing are brought together for the first time in this volume, covering subjects from the Old Masters to Francis Bacon and Howard Hodgkin. Having first gained success as a painter, Gowing's 1952 monograph on Vermeer brought him early recognition as a writer with the ability to combine aesthetic experience with a meticulous historical perspective. Gowing's foremost commitment was to the pioneering painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, notably Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse.

The exhibitions he curated at the Tate and Museum of Modern Art famously helped to mould and reshape public perceptions.

Characterised by a desire to instruct and encourage, his writing reflects a highly successful career as a curator and teacher.

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