John Golding
John Golding is a painter and writer. His most recent book, Paths to the Absolute, was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. (February 2008)
From the Review
February 14, 2008: The Born Rebel Artist
Gustave Courbet Catalog of the exhibition by Sylvain Amic, Kathryn Calley Galitz, Laurence des Cars, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Thomas Galifot, Michel Hilaire, Dominique Lobstein, Bruno Mottin, and Bertrand Tillier
The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
L'Origine du monde: Histoire d'un tableau de Gustave Courbet by Thierry Savatier
Courbet by Linda Nochlin
June 14, 2007: In Braque's Studio
Georges Braque: A Life by Alex Danchev
March 10, 2005: The Artist in Search of Himself
The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art by Mark Rothko
September 25, 2003: Always in Exile
Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work by Hayden Herrera
January 16, 2003: Divide and Conquer
Barnett Newman Catalog of the exhibition edited by Ann Temkin, with essays by Ann Temkin and Richard Shiff, and contributions by Suzanne Penn and Melissa Ho
November 16, 2000: Renoir the Irregular
Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts by Robert L. Herbert
May 14, 1998: Simply Himself
Fernand Léger Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, May 29-September 29, 1997; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, October 28, 1997-January 12, 1998; Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 15-May 12, 1998. a retrospective exhibition at the Musée National d'Art Moderne,, Catalog of the New York exhibition by Carolyn Lanchner, with Jodi Hauptman, by Matthew Affron
January 11, 1996: Under Cézanne's Spell
Cézanne 1995—January 7, 1996; Tate Gallery, London, February 8—April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, May 30—August 18, 1996 an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, September 25,, Catalog of the exhibition by Françoise Cachin, by Joseph J. Rishel
Cézanne: A Biography by John Rewald
Paul Cézanne: The Bathers by Mary Louise Krumrine
Lost Earth: A Life of Cézanne by Philip Callow
Cézanne by Richard Verdi
Cézanne by Philippe Dagen
Le Paradis de Cézanne by Philippe Sollers
June 22, 1995: Mysteries of Mondrian
Piet Mondrian: 1872–1944 Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 11–September 4, 1995; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 1, 1995–January 23, 1996 an exhibition at the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; The National
Piet Mondrian catalog of the exhibition by Yve-Alain Bois, by Joop Joosten, by Angelica Zander Rudenstine, by Hans Janssen
Piet Mondrian: The Amsterdam Years by Robert Welsh, by Boudewijn Bakker, by Marty Bax
Mondrian by John Milner
Mondrian: The Art of Destruction by Carel Blotkamp
May 25, 1995: Supreme Outsider
James McNeill Whistler 28-August 20, 1995 an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May
James McNeill Whistler by Richard Dorment, by Margaret F. MacDonald
James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth by Ronald Anderson, by Anne Koval
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler
Whistler on Art: Selected Letters and Writings of James McNeill Whistler edited by Nigel Thorp
December 16, 1993: Sophisticated Peasant
Joan Miró 1993–January 11, 1994 an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 17,
Joan Miró catalog of the exhibition by Carolyn Lanchner
Miró by Jacques Dupin
Joan Miró: Campo de Estrellas Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
A toute épreuve by Paul Eluard, woodcuts by Joan Miró, Introduction by Anne Hyde Greet
January 28, 1993: Living Still Life
Juan Gris Press by Christopher Green, with contributions by Christian Derouet, by Karin von Maur
Juan Gris 18–November 29, 1992; the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, December 18, 1992–February 14, 1993; the Rijksmuseum Kröller–Müller, Otterlo, March 6–May 2, 1993 an exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, September
January 14, 1993: Live Menu
Picasso and Things: The Still Lifes of Picasso Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Grand Palais, Paris by Jean Sutherland Boggs, with essays by Marie-Laure Bernadac, by Brigitte Léal. Catalog of the exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the
Picasso: Collected Writings edited and with an introduction by Marie-Laure Bernadac, by Christine Piot, preface by Michel Leiris
May 16, 1991: Cataloguing Malevich (letter)
January 17, 1991: Supreme Suprematist
Kazimir Malevich, 1878–1935 September–November, 1990; The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, November 28, 1900–January 13, 1991; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 7, 1991–March 24, 1991 an exhibition at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,
Kazimir Malevich, 1878–1935 catalog of the exhibition, edited by Jeanne D'Andrea
May 31, 1990: Two Who Made a Revolution
Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism 24, 1989, to January 6, 1990 an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City September
Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism catalog of the exhibition, by William Rubin
July 21, 1988: The Triumph of Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1988 an exhibition at the Musée Picasso, Paris, January 26-April 18,. Picasso Museum, Barcelona, May 10-June 14, 1988, Catalog of the exhibition by Hélène Seckel, by William Rubin. others
Le Dernier Picasso: 1953-1973 16, 1988 an exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, February 17-May. Tate Gallery, London, as "Late Picasso," June 21-September 18, 1988, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac, by Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, by David Sylvester
Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington
February 4, 1988: White Magic
Brancusi by Radu Varia
Brancusi by Pontus Hulten, by Natalia Dumitresco, by Alexandre Istrati
August 14, 1986: The Futurist Past
Futurismo & Futurismi October 12, 1986 catalog of an exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, May 3 to, organized by Pontus Hulten
November 21, 1985: Picasso & Poetry
Góngora by Pablo Picasso, introduction by John Russell, poems translated by Alan S. Trueblood
January 31, 1985: The Golden Age
Matisse by Pierre Schneider, translated by Michael Taylor, by Bridget Strevens Romer
October 13, 1983: 'Crimes Against the Cubists': An Exchange
March 21, 1974: The Eyes Have It
The Image in Form: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes edited by Richard Wollheim
Books by John Golding
Paths to the Absolute: Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still (2000)
Braque, the Late Works (1997)
Visions of the Modern (1994)
John Golding (1989)
Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1985)
Fauvism and the School of Chatou: Post-Impressionism in Crisis (1982)
Matisse and Cubism (1978)
Fernand Leger: The Mechanic = Le Mecanicien (1976)
Marcel Duchamp: The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (1973)
Cubism: A History and an Analysis, 1907-1914 (1968)