Anthology of essays "written between 1971 and 1981, covering performance from the Renaissance to the present, with a focus on the 1970s. The essays offer a wide variety of ideas from the points of view of critics and of the artists themselves. ... [details]
"Throughout the more than fifty years of his prolific career, Fernand Léger, one of the most influential of twentieth-century painters, wrote enthusiastic, lucid essays to explain his theories about the purposes of art, which he believed had an important role to play in modern life - not as decoration but as an embodiment of the modern spirit on all levels of society. ... [details]
