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Sebastian Smee

The Art of Rivalry


Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
2017. 416 p. 8 pages of colour plates. 200 mm
Verlag/Jahr: PROFILE BOOKS 2017
ISBN: 1-78125-166-5 (1781251665)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-78125-166-9 (9781781251669)

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Pulitzer Prize-winning Sebastian Smee reveals how love and betrayal shaped the careers of eight famous artists
This is a story about rivalry among artists. Not the kind of rivalry that grows out of hatred and dislike, but rather, rivalry that emerges from admiration, friendship, love. The kind of rivalry that existed between Degas and Manet, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, and Freud and Bacon.

These were some of the most famous and creative relationships in the history of art, driving each individual to heights of creativity and inspiration - and provoking them to despair, jealousy and betrayal. Matisse´s success threatened Picasso so much that his friends would throw darts at a portrait of his rival´s beloved daughter Marguerite, shouting ´there´s one in the eye for Matisse!´ And Willem de Kooning´s twisted friendship with Jackson Pollock didn´t stop him taking up with his friend´s lover barely a year after Pollock´s fatal car crash.

In The Art of Rivalry, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee explores how, as both artists struggled to come into their own, they each played vital roles in provoking the other´s creative breakthroughs - ultimately determining the course of modern art itself.
"Intriguing ... Smee writes beautifully ... tantalising." (Lynn Barber Sunday Times)
Smee, Sebastian
Sebastian Smee is the arts critic for the Boston Globe, and has written for the Australian, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, The Times, Financial Times, Independent on Sunday, Art Newspaper and the Spectator. He is the author of the books Lucian Freud and Side by Side: Picasso v Matisse. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his ´vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation´.