Temperaments : Memoirs of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Other Artists.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (185 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Breakout: Jean Hélion -- Stealing a March on the World: Henri Cartier-Bresson -- A Painting Dervish: Avigdor Arikha -- Dungeon Masters: R. B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, and Others -- Mark Rothko, Talker: Richard Diebenkorn -- Acknowledgments.
Dan Hofstadter was educated at Columbia University and the Sorbonne, to which he received a French scholarship. He has contributed to many national journals, including Smithsonian, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Yorker, serving as a contract writer for the latter for eight years. He is the author of five works of nonfiction. The Love Affair as a Work of Art (1996) was nominated for a Book Critics Circle Award; Falling Palace (2005) was nominated for an American PEN Award.