Temperaments : memoirs of Henri Cartier-Bresson and other artists / Dan Hofstadter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hofstadter, Dan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists--Biography.

Artists.

Artists--Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[Place of distribution not identified] : Open Road Distribution, [date of distribution not identified]

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Open Road Distribution, 1992.

Summary:

Dan Hofstadter was educated at Columbia University and the Sorbonne, to which he received a French scholarship. He has contributed to many national journals, including Smithsonian, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Yorker, serving as a contract writer for the latter for eight years. He is the author of five works of nonfiction. The Love Affair as a Work of Art (1996) was nominated for a Book Critics Circle Award; Falling Palace (2005) was nominated for an American PEN Award.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Breakout: Jean Hélion

Stealing a March on the World: Henri Cartier-Bresson

A Painting Dervish: Avigdor Arikha

Dungeon Masters: R. B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, and Others

Mark Rothko, Talker: Richard Diebenkorn

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 15, 2015).

ISBN:

1-5040-0810-3

OCLC:

900343990