Art International - by Jill Lloyd & Michael Peppiatt (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

For over three decades, Art International was the beating heart of the post-war art world--a magazine where artists and critics met as equals, ideas crossed oceans, and modern art found its global voice. Founded in Zurich in 1959 by the maverick American James Fitzsimmons, it became the essential forum for the era's sharpest minds: Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Lucy Lippard, Rosalind Krauss, Michael Fried, John Berger, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze. Here the great debates of modernism and its aftermath played out, from Abstract Expressionism to Pop, Minimalism to Conceptualism, with artists such as Bacon, Judd, Motherwell, and Kiefer speaking directly from its pages.

This definitive anthology, edited by Art International's final editors Michael Peppiatt and Jill Lloyd, gathers the magazine's most original and influential writing--along with artists' manifestoes, correspondence, and rare critical texts unseen for decades. Lavishly illustrated with archival material, covers, and artworks, it offers a vivid panorama of art's most transformative period and the critics who made sense of it.

A landmark in art publishing, Art International: An Anthology of Post-War Art Writing restores to view the magazine that defined an epoch and the dialogue that shaped the modern art world as we know it.

About the Author

Michael Peppiatt left London in 1966 for a job as arts editor at Réalités then Le Monde in Paris, where he lived at the heart of the art and literary world for the following thirty years. In 1985 he bought Art International, relaunching the magazine from his apartment in Paris. Peppiatt is the author of a dozen books, including Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, In Giacometti's Studio, Interviews With Artists, and the acclaimed memoir, Francis Bacon in Your Blood.

Jill Lloyd is a leading art historian and curator whose work has reshaped the study of Expressionism and modern European art. Her influential book German Expressionism: Primitivism and Modernity (Yale University Press) remains a foundational text in the field. She has curated major exhibitions at Tate, the Royal Academy, the Leopold Museum, and the Neue Galerie New York, where she serves as trustee. Lloyd's essays and catalogues are admired for their erudition, clarity, and deep visual intelligence.