How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us?
Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection
illuminates these questions by exploring the work of influential
twentieth-century artists. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends
and contemporaries--from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff
Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among
others--How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of
the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their
oeuvres.
Salle writes with humor and verve, replacing the jargon of art theory
with precise and evocative descriptions that help the reader develop a
personal and intuitive engagement with art. The result: a master class
on how to see with an artist's eye.