Alan BownessThis book comprises the selected writings of the eminent art historian, critic, and museum director, Sir Alan Bowness (1928 2021). In the 1950s and early 1960s, he was a regular and acute critic of contemporary art for Art News and Review, The Observer, The Spectator, Times Literary Review, and the New York based magazine Arts, among others. His reviews were often among the first substantial articles on the post war generation of British artists, many