Reported Sightings: Art Chronicles 1957-1987

by John Ashbery

Book Overview

In the thirty years that John Ashbery has been writing his acclaimed poetry, he has also been one of America's most important art critics--first for the Paris Herald Tribune, then as executive editor of ARTnews, next as critic for New York, and later for Newsweek. Reported Sightings is a generously illustrated selection of his best writings on art. This rich volume covers the wide range of Ashbery's interests--including Surrealism, nineteenth-century French art, Abstract Expressionism, architecture, and design.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394573870
• ISBN13: 9780394573878
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 417 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.