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Publisher: Random House

Author: Sebastian Smee

ISBN: 9780812985078

Non fiction, Biography

The Art of Rivalry by
Sebastian Smee

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$ 500.00 mxn

The Art of Rivalry by

Sebastian Smee

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"A fresh and fruitful approach to art history . . . [Sebastian] Smee's double portraits are deeply moving, even haunting in their investigations of artistic and emotional symbioses of incalculable intricacy and consequence."

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Summary

Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights.

Rivalry is at the heart of some of the most famous and fruitful relationships in history. The Art of Rivalry follows eight celebrated artists, each linked to a counterpart by friendship, admiration, envy, and ambition. All eight are household names today. But to achieve what they did, each needed the influence of a contemporary—one who was equally ambitious but possessed sharply contrasting strengths and weaknesses.

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