Jean Helion, 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 insight
Originally published in 1971, this masterpiece of writing on the art of the 20th century provides a fascinating cultural journey through the theory and practice of such artists as Nicolas Poussin, Pau
Walter Sickert, the prominent English post-Impressionist painter, was also a unique and highly perceptive writer about a wide variety of matters connected to the world of art. His pungent and vivid re
