Discusses the nature of art, the painter and society, inspiration, style, the philosophy of modern painting, the picture plane, color and medium, creativity, an

Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, i

In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico

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New and expanded edition of the title, first published in 1960.