Book Reviews

    Modern Painters

    'Patrick Heron' (Summer, 1988)
    "Patrick Heron" edited by Vivien Knight

    'Cubism' (Spring, 1989)
    "Cubism" by John Golding, "Cubism and Its Enemies" by Christopher Green

    'Jack the Dripper' (Winter, 1989)
    "Jackson Pollock" by Ellen Landau

    'High Architecture: Richard Meier' (Summer, 1990)
    "Richard Meier: Building for Art" edited by Werner Blaser

    'Poussin and Cézanne' (Summer 1991)
    "Paul Cézanne: The Bathers" by Mary Louise Krumrine. "Nicolas Poussin" by Alain Mérot, "Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape" by Richard Verdi, "Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations" by Joachim Gasquet


    RA Magazine

    'Toward a Definition' (No. 29/Winter, 1990)
    "First Diasporist Manifesto" by R.B.Kitaj

    'Books' (Winter 1992)
    "Eric Gill: Sculpture" by Judith Collins and "Autobiography" by Eric Gill


    The Art Newspaper

    David Cohen was Books Editor of the Art Newspaper in its founding year [October 1990 and September 1991]:

    No 1 (October 1990)

    ‘Monet makes the world go round’ [unsigned]"Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings" by Paul Hayes Tucker, "Monet's Cathedrals" by Joachim Pissarro, "Impressionist Gardens" by Judith Bumpus, "Pissarro and Pontoise" by Richard R. Brettell and Joachim Pissarro

    Books Alembic: From figleaves to aeroplanes [unsigned]
    "International Dictionary of Art and Artists" edited by James Vinson; "Art Deco Painting" by Edward Lucie-Smith; "Futurism in Flight: 'Aeropittura' paintings and sculptures of Man's conquest of space 1913-1945" edited by Bruno Mantura; "John Hoyland" by Mel Gooding; "Rembrandt's Landscapes : Drawings and Prints" by Cynthia P. Schneider;

    No 2 (November 1990)

    'The Broken Butterfly of Art'
    "Egon Schiele : The Complete Works" by Jane Kallir, "Egon Schiele and His Contemporaries, from the Leopold Collection, Vienna" edited by Klaus Albrecht Schröder & Harald Szeeman

    For the Bookshelf [unsigned]
    "Egon Schiele Sketchbooks" by Christian Nebehay; and monographs on Schiele by Alessandra Comini, Simon Wilson, Erwin Mitsch and Frank Whitford

    The Prince of Painters [unsigned]
    "Titian/Tiziano", exhibition catalogue, Venice 1990

    No 3 (December 1990)

    'New Impressions' [unsigned]
    "Avant Garde British Printmaking 1914-1960" by Frances Carey and Anthony Griffiths, "Eric Gill: The Engravings" edited by Christopher Skelton, "The Engravings of John Buckland Wright" by Christopher Buckland Wright

    In brief [unsigned]
    "Mexico: Splendours of Thirty Centuries"; "Pop Art: A Continuing History" by Marco Livingstone; "Caspar David Friedrich" by Helmut Borsch-Supan; "Icons and the Mystical Origins of Christianity" by Richard Temple

    No 4 (January 1991)

    Collected [unsigned]
    "Masterworks from the Gemaldegalerie Berlin" by Henning Bock, "Treasures of the Hermitage" edited by Boris Piotrovski, "The Royal Collection: Paintings From Windsor Castle" by Christopher Lloyd and Mark Evans

    Classic Masters [unsigned]
    "Abstract Expressionism" by David Anfam; "Photography at the Bauhaus" by Jeannine Fiedler; "Recording Britain : A Pictorial Domesday of pre-war Britain" by David Mellor, Gill Saunders & Patrick Wright; "The Redouté Album" by Martyn and Alison Rix; "Seurat" by John Rewald;

    No 5 (February 1991)

    'Creative Celts. 5000 years of Scottishness' [unsigned]
    "Scotland Creates, 5000 Years of Art and Design" edited by Wendy Kaplan, "The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600-1960" by Paul Harris and Julian Halsby, "Glasgow Girls, Women in Art and Design, 1880-1920" by Jude Burkkhauser

    In brief [unsigned]
    "The Age of Van Gogh, Dutch Painting 1880-1895 " by Richard Bionda and Carel Blotkamp; "The Dictionary of British Art Volume VI: 20th Century Painters and Sculptors" by Frances Spalding and Judith Collins; "Swords of the Samurai" by Victor Harris and Nobuo Ogasawara

    Madonna’s favourite artist [unsigned]
    "The Mexican Muralists in the United States" by Laurance P. Hurlburt; "Mexican Patterns, A Design Source Book" by Chloë Sayer; "Frida Kahlo, The Brush of Anguish" by Martha Zamora;

    No 8 (May 1991)

    Critic marches past [unsigned]
    "Marches Past" by Peter Fuller

    No 9 (June 1991)

    America collects Dutch [unsigned]
    "Great Dutch Paintings from America" by Ben Broos;

    No 10 (July-September 1991)

    Monuments of the New France [unsigned]
    "L’Art et la Ville" by Georges Duby

    Chinese art in London [unsigned]
    "Chinese Art and Design" by Rose Kerr, "Chinese Pottery and Porcelain" by S.J. Vainker

    No 11 (October 1991)

    Surrealist watching [unsigned]
    "The Surrealist World of Desmond Morris" by Michel Remy;

    No 18 (May 1992)

    ‘The Apotheosis of Caro’
    "Anthony Caro: Catalogue Raisonné" by Dieter Blume, "
    Caro" by Karen Wilkin

    No 27 (April 1993)

    'Friendly Impressions'
    "Joseph Hecht 1891-1951" by Dominique Tonneau-Ryckelynck and Roland Plumart, "The Prints of Stanley William Hayter" by Peter Black and Désirée Moorhead, "The Prints of Anthony Gross" by Robin Herdman

    The New York Times

    ‘Artists at an Exhibition’ (October 4, 1998) Book Review "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and elsewhere" by Michael Kimmelman

    ‘Art for the Workers’ Sake’ (January 17, 1999) Book Review
    "Ben Shahn: An Artist’s Life" by Howard Greenfeld

    ‘But is it Art?’ (September 12, 1999) Book Review "Homemade Esthetics" by Clement Greenberg

    ‘The American View’ (February 20, 2000) Book Review "Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art" by Justin Spring


    Miscellaneous

    ‘Primitive Art in Civilised Places by Sally Price’ in Apollo (January 1991)

    'Hayter and Hecht' in Print Quarterly Volume X no 1 (1993)"Joseph Hecht 1891-1951" by Dominique Tonneau-Ryckelynck and Roland Plumart, "The Prints of Stanley William Hayter" by Peter Black and Désirée Moorhead

    'Modern Art: Practices and Debates' in The Art Book Review Quarterly (No.16, Spring 1994)
    four volumes published by Yale and the Open University

    'Installation Art'in Sculpture (January-February 1996) "Installation Art" by Michael Archer and others

    ‘Katzorama’ in Art Journal (Winter 1998)
    "Alex Katz: A Retrospective" by Irving Sandler, "Alex Katz Twenty Five Years of Painting from the Saatchi Collection" edited by David Sylvester, "Alex Katz Under the Stars: American Landscapes 1951-95" by Alanna Heiss, Simon Schama and Dave Hickey, "Alex Katz American Landscape" edited by Jochen Poetter, "Alex Katz" by Juan Manuel Bonet and Kevin Power, "Alex Katz Seven Painting" by Francesco Clemente and Merlin James, "Alex Katz" by Kay Heymer, "Alex Katz" by Eric de Chassey, "Invented Symbols" by Alex Katz

    ‘Time to Get Real’ in The Sunday Times Books (London) (6 June 1999)
    "What is Painting? Representation and Modern Art" by Julian Bell

    reprinted as ‘The Demise of Depiction’ in Artnet (posted August 16, 1999)

    ‘Books Received: Israeli Art’ in The Burlington Magazine (London) Number 1169 (August 2000)
    "Israeli Painting: From Post-Impressionism to Post-Zionism" by Ronald Fuhrer; "After Rabin: New Art from Israel" by Susan Tumarkin Goodman


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