Painting is terribly difficult
Julian Barnes: Myths about Monet, 14 December 2023
Monet: The Restless Vision
by Jackie Wullschläger.
Allen Lane, 545 pp., £35, October 2023,978 0 241 18830 9 Show More
by Jackie Wullschläger.
Allen Lane, 545 pp., £35, October 2023,
“... was then and largely remains today an ethical slide area.’ The high-priest critic Clement Greenberg ‘didn’t believe in buying art, but he liked receiving it,’ from artists and art dealers whom his words had assisted or would assist. But ‘by far the most corrupt art-world figure I knew in New York … was Henry Geldzahler.’ When the director ... ”