How to See Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art [Paperback]

An upbeat, non-combative approach to art criticism.& [F]resh, engaging.David Salles brilliant canvases changed everything, and now his luminescent eye and voice have married in a book that is destined to alter not only how we look at art, but the language we use to describe it. His essays are a gift that, in addition to feeding ones process of intellection, nourishes ones art-loving soul. Transcendent.Witty, chatty, intimate, sharp.Lovely to read.& [We feel we are reading the latest from a commentator who has been at it for a lifetime and yet is still making discoveries and sharp, new distinctions& observations that can be funny, warm, offhandedly erudite, arch, or simply commonsensical, and that intensify the part played by art in our lives and the life of art itself.[Salle] writes about art that he admires with passion and a discerning eye.& [I]lluminating.A trenchant and light-on-its-feet collection of critical essays& about art, artists, fame, and, if you read it closely enough, what its like to have been David Salle for all these years.A remarkable painter whose writing is as fresh, vital, and startling as his canvases, Salle& talks about artists and their work in witty, jargon-free, and eminently accessible prose.[A] rare mix of eminently readable art criticism and close scrutiny of process and technique. His admiring descriptions& [allow] the reader to momentarily inhabit the consciousness of an artist and to rediscover painting through his eyes.If John Bergers