The Brutality of Fact: David Sylvester and the Vocation of Looking

The greatest British art critic of the twentieth century never wrote a book he was satisfied with. What he left behind instead was something rarer — a model of attention so exacting it changed what art could ask of its audience. By Bergotte There is a way of sitting in front of a painting thatContinue reading “The Brutality of Fact: David Sylvester and the Vocation of Looking”