No art for art’s sake as Barnes gets forensic
Non-Fiction: Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. By Julian Barnes. Jonathan Cape, €23.
The English painter Lucian Freud had no time for art criticism. Once, when he was asked about his work, he suggested that anything he said about his art would be as relevant to it as the grunt a tennis player makes when hitting a shot.
Thankfully, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes rejects such dismissive assumptions. Keeping an Eye ...
