For the past 35 years, Henry Geldzahler, controversial first curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Twentieth Century Art has been at the centre of America's lively and vital art scene. Written in his disarmingly intimate, inciteful and amusing style, this is his first collection of essays, interviews and talks with some of the most innovative artists of the last thirty years such as Frank Stella, Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Warhol and Hockney to name a few. With a foreword by David Hockney.
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For the past 35 years, Henry Geldzahler, controversial first curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Twentieth Century Art has been at the centre of America's lively and vital art scene. Written in his disarmingly intimate, inciteful and amusing style, this is his first collection of essays, interviews and talks with some of the most innovative artists of the last thirty years such as Frank Stella, Alice Neel, Louise Bourgeois, Warhol and Hockney to name a few. With a foreword by David Hockney.