The Flow of Art: Essays and Criticisms - Paperback

by Henry McBride (Author), Daniel Catton Rich (Editor), Hilton Kramer (Foreword by)

"A wonderful collection of short pieces-gossipy, chatty, full of overheard conversations, unexpectedly sharp judgments, remarkable predictions. During his lifetime, Henry McBride was the best known and most widely read American art critic, and reading The Flow of Art you can see why. Never doctrinaire or solemn, he managed to write in such a way that the widest audience-artists, curators, collectors, people with a broad interest in the arts and even the general public, with its marginal interest could find something in him. . . . He] is one of that small band who have made art criticism a branch of literature."-Sanford Schwartz, New Republic "This charming and amusing book ought to become compulsory reading for all students of the history of art."-Apollo "Important for the history of criticism in America and the personal and sometimes gossipy descriptions of the artist involved."-Choice

Back Jacket

This book collects forty years of writing (1913-52) by a preeminent supporter and explicator of modern art. Henry McBride, an art critic for the New York Sun and the Dial, gave valuable encouragement and publicity to many in the art world, including Thomas Eakins, John Kane, Gertrude Stein, and Walt Disney. His articles, conversational and lightly humorous in tone, form a personal chronicle of the artistic life of his time - a time when modernism in the arts was tracing its historic course from a coterie interest to a mainstream cultural force.