Seeing through Fuller
Nicholas Penny, 30 March 1989
Theoria: Art and the Absence of Grace
by Peter Fuller.
Chatto, 260 pp., £15, November 1988,0 7011 2942 5 Show More
by Peter Fuller.
Chatto, 260 pp., £15, November 1988,
Seeing through Berger
by Peter Fuller.
Claridge, 176 pp., £8.95, November 1988,1 870626 75 3 Show More
by Peter Fuller.
Claridge, 176 pp., £8.95, November 1988,
Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. IX: Since the Second World War
edited by Boris Ford.
Cambridge, 369 pp., £19.50, November 1988,0 521 32765 2 Show More
edited by Boris Ford.
Cambridge, 369 pp., £19.50, November 1988,
The Sun is God: Painting, Literature and Mythology in the 19th Century
edited by J.B. Bullen.
Oxford, 230 pp., £27.50, March 1989,0 19 812884 3 Show More
edited by J.B. Bullen.
Oxford, 230 pp., £27.50, March 1989,
Artisans and Architects: The Ruskinian Tradition in Architectural Thought
by Mark Swenarton.
Macmillan, 239 pp., £35, February 1989,0 333 46460 5 Show More
by Mark Swenarton.
Macmillan, 239 pp., £35, February 1989,
“... It has been respectable for some while now to admit to being bored by the huge, flat, ‘pure’ abstracts on the white walls of the museums of modern art. And yet non-representational paintings on a fairly large scale seem still to be what art students are most encouraged to make. Critics now incline to applaud in them evidence of a strenously physical relationship with paint ... ”