Not His Type
Frank Kermode, 5 September 1996
About Modern Art: Critical Essays 1948-96
by David Sylvester.
Chatto, 448 pp., £25, June 1996,0 7011 6268 6 Show More
by David Sylvester.
Chatto, 448 pp., £25, June 1996,
“... of the page. A left-wing journal here called the Tribute accepted an article he wrote about a London exhibition. Now 18, he was launched on a career for which he was but insecurely qualified. It was wartime, and he had seen very few foreign pictures; the National Gallery exposed only one Old Master a month. But, then as now, he was almost as interested in ... ”