Preaching art

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David Sylvester, 67, writes on contemporary art although he prefers Renaissance art and music. He became friends with the artists he wrote about, especially Albero Giacometti and Francis Bacon. For years he expounded that Matisse and Bonnard were greater artists than Picasso, but in the 1980s he changed his mind. He was commissioned by Jean and Dominique de Menil to produce a catalogue on Rene Magritte, the Belgian surrealist. The first of five volumes is published as a monograph on May 26 1992 after 23 years' work on the project. He enjoys organising exhibitions and the Magritte exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, which opens on May 21 1992, uses space to display the works face-on to demonstrate their iconic quality.

Exhibitions, Bibliography, Art critics, Sylvester, David (Writer), Magritte, Rene (Painter)

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Diary of a genius dying in Hampstead

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Michael Molnar, research director of the Freud Museum in Hampstead, edited 'The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939' for the Freud Museum which houses part of the Freud archive in the Library of Congress. It includes Freud's grandson W Ernest Freud's recollections and links family snapshots with Freud's chronicle of the period between the Wall Street crash and the outbreak of the Second World War to produce a revealing diary. Cancer was diagnosed in 1923 but he lived a further 16 years, arriving in London in June 1938 with heart disease. On Oct 31 1929 the first diary entry reads 'Passed over for the Nobel Prize' but many other references to respect and admiration are noted.

Freud, Sigmund

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Cartier-Bresson: his eye, hand, lens, art and ego

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The Internationally-reputed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, 84, is anti-materialist and takes his photographs for pleasure. He founded the photojournalism agency Magnum-Photos with Robert Capa, David Seymour and George Rodger. His memorable, powerful photographs have a stillness. He becomes invisible to his subjects. He believes good photographs result from patience, carefulness, respect for the subject, sensitivity and application. At the age of 60 he stopped taking photographs and resumed drawing.

Photographers, Cartier-Bresson, Henri

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