tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post7422552166553951633..comments2024-03-26T10:07:14.049-04:00Comments on Painting: "Modern Painters" considered this article for publication in an issue on Cezanne.The editor, Karen Wright, said it was "thought provoking".Martin Mugarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2987736854176165487.post-91461743018795658302020-10-23T13:41:14.813-04:002020-10-23T13:41:14.813-04:00My sister sent this to her friend Svetlana Alpers....My sister sent this to her friend Svetlana Alpers. Little did I know that her husband had been Baxandall. Her response:<br /><br />Dear Betty,<br /> Thanks for sending me your brother's book. I have now taken the time to read it through.<br /> I share his interest in the relation between seeing and drawing/painting. <br /> It is full of interesting points-- starting off with the review of David Marr in the NYRB which was not only important for your brother but for myself and Michel Baxandall ( also mentioned in the text.) We both thrilled to Marr's discoveries and the opportunities they offered to think newly about seeing by painters and thru pictures ( as it were). Studies of vision have moved fast since then and Marr seems a bit old-fashioned !!!<br /> Perhaps your brother makes too quick and firm a link between the knowledge we have about the eye and seeing and what artists do/have done- the "lines" he posties in Cezanne do not convince me. Baxandall, who was much concerned with the question of vision and painting , thought we did not know nearly enough to make the kinds of links claimed in this book. <br /> There is a kind of single-mindedness running through-- an anxiety to be or is it to do or make right. Maybe writing thoughts out in a book is different from practice in the classroom. I expect your brother has been a fine teaches-- in fact his students' work and his own look good on these pages.Martin Mugarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12799696151828817646noreply@blogger.com