Writers on Artists: A Collection of Great Writing on Art (Modern Painters)

First American edition.  352pp, generously illustrated in full colour.  Paper-covered pictorial boards. Brown endpapers.  4to.  Boards very slightly pushed at spine ends else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  In its original dust wrapper, slightly shelf worn and a little rubbed along extreme upper edge.  

A handsome and imposing volumes containing a collection of writings on art by world leading novelists, poets, critics and artists from the pages of Modern Painters magazine.  Paul Auster described it as an exquisite collection.  David Bowie described Modern Painters magazine as ‘possibly the most infuriating art publication to come out of Britain.  It’s a pleasure to write for it, whatever the hell is’.