How Painting Happens (and why it matters) (Signed Copy) author-jean-louis-cohen nearly seventy for the very

nearly seventy for the very first time

as well as concise biographies of all the artists discussed in the book and a complete bibliography of Nochlin’s publications

forcing us to take a fresh look at our own lives and beliefs and at the objects that surround us every day

and Dupon’s personal recommendations for inspiring shops and websites to visit

from his early work as a caricaturist to the late paintings of waterlilies and his garden at Giverny

How Painting Happens (and why it matters) (Signed Copy) author-jean-louis-cohen nearly seventy for the veryPainting is an almost inconceivably ancient activity that remains vigorously alive in the twenty first century. Every successful painting creates a new world, which we inhabit for as long as we care to look at it. Paintings can incorporate profound ideas and paradoxes that can be grasped without words. For those who dedicate themselves to it, the art of painting can become an all consuming, lifelong obsession. It is a subject on which painters