David Sylvester

David Sylvester, who wrote many memorable pieces for this paper, died in 2001.

In the LRB Archive:

• Memoirs of a Pet Lamb’s account of his childhood · 5 July 2001

• Mayhem at Millbank writes about the new hang at the Tate Britain (2000) · 18 May 2000

• On the Edge · 27 April 2000

• ‘Someone you had to be a bit careful with’: Gallery Rogues · 30 March 2000

  • Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser by Harriet Vyner

• The Grin without the Cat views Jackson Pollock at the Tate · 1 April 1999

  • Jackson Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel
  • Interpreting Pollock by Jeremy Lewison

• Notes on Cézanne · 7 March 1996

• The Real Magic · 8 June 1995

  • A Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson

• David Sylvester wrote this preface to the catalogue of the Richard Long exhibition at the São Paolo Bienal: Richard Long asked that it be left out · 20 October 1994

• Something to look at · 10 March 1994

• In bed with the Surrealists · 6 January 1994

  • Investigating Sex: Surrealist Research 1928-1932 edited by José Pierre, translated by Malcolm Imrie

• Hanging Offence · 21 October 1993

• Solid and Fleeting · 17 December 1992

• Constable’s Weather · 29 August 1991

• Italy’s New Art · 30 March 1989

• Late Picasso at the Tate · 1 September 1988

• Giacometti and Bacon · 19 March 1987

  • Giacometti: A Biography by James Lord

Letters

Select a letter to see more contributors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Contributor's Index »