Private View: The Lively World of British Art

by John Russell

Comes with protective slip case.

298 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

John Russell CBE (22 January 1919 – 23 August 2008) was an English art critic and journalist.

He started his career at the Tate Gallery in 1940, but moved to the country after the gallery was bombed during World War II.

He worked in Naval Intelligence for the Admiralty where he met author Ian Fleming, who helped to secure Russell a reviewing position at The Sunday Times in 1950.
Russell was chief art critic at the New York Times from 1982 to 1990.


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Reviews

[Meredith]

Pretentious, but in a good way. Loads of offhand sexism, but that's how it was. Let's not erase the past because it was different. The biographical information abut the artists are very subjective, but interesting. The pictures are nice. The slice-of-life-ness of it is very good.