"This book collects, for the first time, texts by Hélion published originally in English in magazines both well-known and obscure, including Partisan Review, Burlington Magazine, and Art and Literature. In these incisive and beautifully lucid essays, notes, and interviews from a…
Double rhythm: writings about painting
by Rosenthal, Deborah, Hélion, Jean
fromArtists & art
Jean Hélion, the French painter who died at eighty-three in 1987, brought together in his copious and essential writing on art the theoretical authority of the intellectual and the fundamental insights of the craftsman in his studio. His writing extended throughout the five deca…
"This book collects, for the first time, texts by Hélion published originally in English in magazines both well-known and obscure, including Partisan Review, Burlington Magazine, and Art and Literature. In these incisive and beautifully lucid essays, notes, and interviews from a…
This brilliant blend of history, biography, and criticism explores the seminal figures of twentieth-century French art-Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Léger, Dufy, Braque, Giacometti, Balthus, and Hélion-and the vital art world in which they thrived. The ten interlocking essays in thi…
This brilliant blend of history, biography, and criticism explores the seminal figures of twentieth-century French art?Matisse, Picasso, Derain, Léger, Dufy, Braque, Giacometti, Balthus, and Hélion?and the vital art world in which they thrived. The ten interlocking essays in thi…