"Lincoln Perry has written an irresistibly accessible and readable artist's memoir, with plenty of memorable phrases. Nothing can replace art seen in situ, as Perry tells us, but walking hand in hand with this ideal observer - a practising artist with a keen, empathetic eye - is a truly thrilling experience."
Joyce Carol Oates
A visit to a museum can be overwhelming, exhausting and unrewarding. However, looking at works of art from the hand of an artist becomes an enriching and memorable experience. From the breadth of his visual experience, which spans ancient Greece, the Renaissance, African and Asian art, and modernism, Lincoln Perry brings us closer to new ways of seeing and appreciating art. Throughout fifteen essays, he manages to make the most diverse works close and accessible to us, and enriches the narrative with personal stories of his training as a painter and sculptor, or of those days when it was still possible to spend the night in the car park of the Louvre Museum in a rickety van.

Translator: Lorenzo Luengo
Publisher: Siruela
ISBN: 9788419942906
Year of publication: 2024
Dimensions: 24.0 x 16.0 cm
Author: Lincoln Perry

Publisher: Siruela