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William H. Robinson, Picasso and the Mysteries of Life: “La Vie” (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012).
William Rubin, “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern (exhibition catalog) (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984).
Hilary Spurling, La Grande Thérèse: The Greatest Scandal of the Century (Berkeley: Counterpoint Press, 2000).
Gertrude Stein, Picasso: The Complete Writings (Boston: Beacon, 1970).
———, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (New York: Vintage, 1990).
Leo Stein, Appreciation: Painting, Poetry, and Prose (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996).
Brenda Wineapple, Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein (New York: Putnam, 1996).
FILM
Christopher Bruce and Waldemar Januszczak, Picasso: Magic, Sex, Death, presented by John Richardson (London: Channel 4, 2001).
WILLEM DE KOONING AND JACKSON POLLOCK
BOOKS
William C. Agee, Irving Sandler, and Karen Wilkin, American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927–1942 (exhibition catalog) (Andover: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2011).
David Anfam, Abstract Expressionism (London: Thames & Hudson, 1990).
Leonhard Emmerling, Jackson Pollock 1912–1956 (Cologne: Taschen, 2003).
Harry F. Gaugh, De Kooning (New York: Abbeville, 1982).
Barbara Hess, Willem de Kooning 1904–1997: Content as a Glimpse (Cologne: Taschen, 2004).
Thomas B. Hess, Willem de Kooning (exhibition catalog) (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968).
Nancy Jachec, Jackson Pollock: Works, Writings, and Interviews (Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 2011).
Norman L. Kleeblatt, editor, Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976 (exhibition catalog, New York: Jewish Museum, 2008).
Ruth Kligman, Love Affair: A Memoir of Jackson Pollock (New York: Cooper Square Press, 1999).
Francis V. O’Connor, Jackson Pollock (exhibition catalog) (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967).
Frank O’Hara, Art Chronicles 1954–1966 (New York: Venture, 1975).
Jed Perl, New Art City (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005).
Jed Perl, editor, Art in America 1945–1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism (New York: Library of America, 2014).
Sylvia Winter Pollock and Francesca Pollock, American Letters 1927–1947: Jackson Pollock and Family (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011).
Jeffrey Potter, To a Violent Grave: An Oral Biography of Jackson Pollock (Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1987).
Harold Rosenberg, The Anxious Object: Art Today and Its Audience (New York: Horizon Press, 1964).
Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock: A Biography (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001).
Ann Temkin, Abstract Expressionism at the Museum of Modern Art: Selections from the Collection (exhibition catalog) (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2010).
Evelyn Toynton, Jackson Pollock (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012).
ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
“Jackson Pollock: Chronology,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/pollock/website100/chronology.html.
Peter Schjeldahl, “Shifting Picture,” New Yorker, September 26, 2011.
GENERAL
Rona Goffen, Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005).
Frederick Ilchman, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009).
Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship (New York: New York Review of Books, 2003).
BY SEBASTIAN SMEE
The Art of Rivalry
Lucian Freud on Paper (introduction)
Lucian Freud
Freud at Work: Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee
Lucian Freud 1996–2005
Lucian Freud Drawings 1940
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SEBASTIAN SMEE has been The Boston Globe’s art critic since 2008. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2011, having been a runner-up in 2008. He joined the Globe’s staff from Sydney, where he worked as national art critic for The Australian. Prior to that, he lived for four years in the U.K., where he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, The Independent, Prospect, and The Spectator. He has contributed to five books on Lucian Freud. He teaches nonfiction writing at Wellesley College.
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