"This is one of the most original books on art ever published. Alexander Liberman takes you into the studios and lives of thirty-nine of the greatest modern artists: Arp, Bazaine, Bonnard, Bores, Brancusi, Braque, Cezanne, Chagall, Dali, Derain, Duchamp, Dubuffet, Dufy, Ernst, Giacometti, Gontcharova, Gromaire, Hartung, Kandinsky, Kupka, Larionov, Laurencin, Le Corbusier, Leger, Manessier, Masson, Matisse, Miro, Monet, Pevsner, Picasso, Renoir, Richier, Rouault, Segonzac, Utrillo, Van Dongen, Villon, Vlaminck." Liberman draws on his skill as a photographer and his wide acquaintance with the great modern artists to construct a splendid visual and verbal meditation on art and the act of creation. 216 photos, two double-page photos in color, the rest in black and white.

Excellent revised edition. ( )

"I have known red Russians and white Russians, but you are the first yellow Russian I have known," raged DV [Diana Vreeland] famously at Liberman after he ousted her from her office at Vogue. It turned out OK for her [open arms of Met Museum], but Liberman, himself, was only slowwww decline after he made this book, an outgrowth of the Vogue 1950s zeitgeist... ( )

text and phographs by alexander liberman, foreword by James Thrall Soby. 100