Reading Russell: Essays, 1941-1988 on Ideas, Literature, Art, Theater, Music, Places, and Persons

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989. Cloth, 263 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. The British-born writer was art critic for The Times in London and lafer New York Times (in the late 1980s). CONTENTS: PART I. ENDURING PRESENCES; Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Delacroix; From Aksakov to Chaliapin; Henry James comes down from the ivory tower; Meyerhold Redux; The Malraux show; Godot remembered; Fischer-Dieskan: a golden future; Lincoln Kirstein: in the American grain; John Pope-Hennessy; PART II. THEY SAY LIFE'S THE THING; Pleasure in reading; Gibbon in Lausanne; Voltaire in Geneva; An odd couple: Flaubert and Turgeniev; John Ruskin: a deep well of words; Sainte-Beuve, the weekly achiever; PART III. PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE; Jean-Honore Fragonard; Berthe Morisot; Thomas Eakins; Walter Sickert; Beatrix Potter; Willem De Kooning; Joseph Beuys; James Turrell; Anselm Kiefer; Gilbert & George; PART IV. PERSONS ONE IS GLAD TO HAVE KNOWN; Meyer Schapiro; Kenneth Clark; A. Hyatt Mayor; Clive Bell; Russell Page; Betty Parsons; Anthony and Violet Powell; PART V. A SENSE OF GLORY (AND ITS OPPOSITE); Farewell to London; Luminism: the healing art; Harold Rosenberg and the role of the critic; It's not "women's art": it's art; What happened to men?; Art tells us where we are; Postmodern; the new flower on diction's dungheap; VI. SOME EVENINGS ON THE TOWN; Eugene Ionesco: a school of vigilance; Nijinsky and Nijinska; Hockney and Tristan; Rachmaninoff as songbird; La Boheme; Falstaff; PART VII. SOME LITTLE NOTHINGS; Connecticut: alpha and omega; Other people's houses; From Aalen to Zypern: the continental timetable; A room with a view; Love me, love my luggage; Wisteria (Rhymes with hysteria); PART VIII. A WORLD ELSEWHERE; India!. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.