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In the course of a career thinking and writing about art, Martin Gayford has travelled all over the world both to see works of art and to meet artists. Gayfords journeys, often to fairly inaccessible places, involve frustrations and complications, but also serendipitous encounters and outcomes, which he makes as much a part of the story as the final destination. Entertaining and informative, Gayford includes trips to see Brancusis Endless Column in Romania, prehistoric cave art in France, the museum island of Naoshima in Japan, the Judd Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and a Roni Horn work in Iceland. Interwoven with these accounts are journeys to meet artists Robert Rauschenberg in New York, Marina Abramovic in Venice, Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris or travels with artists, such as a trip to Beijing with Gilbert & George. These encounters not only provide insights into the way artists approach and think about their art but also reveal the importance of their personal environments. And in the process, Gayford discusses how these meetings have impacted on his own evolving ideas and tastes.
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Art GeneralIndex
Page numbers refer to the 2019 print edition
Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations
Abramović, Marina 9, 31–38, 33, 158
The Artist Is Present 38
House 33
Relation in Time 34, 35
Rhythm 5 36
Rhythm 10 36
Role Exchange 34
Abstract Expressionism 151
Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade 36
Africa 121
Ajanta caves 86
Albers, Josef 172
Homage to the Square 172
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo 54
alchemy 100
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence 49
Alps 128
Amsterdam 37, 108
anarchism 134
Ando, Tadao 119, 119
Andre, Carl 67–69, 71
Equivalent VIII 68
Last Ladder 67
Annamalaiyar Temple, Tiruvannamalai, India 21–22, 22
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London 107, 108
Arctic Circle 78, 79
Ardèche, France 44–45
Aretino, Pietro 184
Arezzo, Italy 86
Art Museum, Reykjavik 81
Artangel 85
Athos, Mount 34
Atlantic Ocean 151
Avatamsaka Sutra 124
Ayres, Gillian 11, 49
Bacon, Francis 48, 54
Barjac, Languedoc 94–103, 97, 101
Baselitz, Georg 162, 163
Bauhaus 172
BBC 108
Beatles 37, 49
Beckett, Samuel 159
Beijing 9, 105–13, 123
Belgrade 31, 34, 36, 37
Bell, Clive 23
Bell, Quentin 23–24
Bell, Vanessa 23
Bellincioni, Bernardo 75
Bellini, Giovanni 74, 179
Benesse Holdings, Inc. 117
Bergamo, Italy 177, 178
Bergerac, France 41
Beuys, Joseph 158–59
Birch, James 106, 108
Black Mountain College, North Carolina 171–72
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire 70, 76
Bloomsbury Group 23–24
Bohn, Niels 166
Bologna, Italy 34
Bosch, Hieronymus 160
Botticelli, Sandro 66
Brancusi, Constantin 17–18
Endless Column 8, 13–20, 30, 31, 15
The Gate of the Kiss 20
The Table of Silence 20
Brandt, Bill 151
Braque, Georges 63, 136
Brihadishvara Temple, Thanjavur, India 26–28, 27
British Council 108
British Museum, London 43
bronze statuettes 28–30
Bucharest 14, 18
Buddhism 24, 26, 117, 119, 121, 123, 128, 167
Burn, Gordon 81, 82
Cage, John 161, 172
Camus, Albert, L’Étranger 153
Cap Blanc, Les Eyzies, Dordogne 42–43, 42
Caravaggio 24
The Conversion of Saul 66
Carpathian Mountains 14, 20
Cartier-Bresson, Henri 9, 128, 132–40, 148, 150
Alpes de Haute-Provence, near Cereste, France 134
Rome, Italy 137
cave paintings 40–47, 42, 53, 162
Ceauşescu, Nicolae 16
Cézanne, Paul 52, 95, 139
Chamberlain, John 92
Chartres, France 11
Chauvet, Ardèche 44–45
Chennai, India 22–23
Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima 119–20, 119
China 7–8, 37–38, 103, 105–13, 122–30
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas 91
Chola dynasty 28–30
Choquet, Victor 139
Christ 24, 54, 62, 177, 184
Christianity 24, 34
Christie, Agatha 82
Cingoli, Italy 181–84
...Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Other Titles of Interest
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Being There
- Predecessors, Rivals, Successors
- Art and Landscapes
- Way Out East
- Slow and Fast Looking
- Chance and Necessity
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Copyright