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After 50 years – Sight & Insight is back in print!

Alexander Eliot, distinguished critic and art historian, breaks through to the silent world of masterpieces and makes them live anew in the eye of the imagination. Eliot plumbs the truths expressed by the greatest works of painting, sculpture and architecture. Eliot’s style is crystalline, and his purpose plain: to bring art back to the center of our culture.

Available in Softcover, Hardcover, and E-book.

Alexander Eliot Featured in New Frank Mason Documentary

Fine Art painter and educator, Frank Mason, reveals the scandal behind art restoration and fights to preserve our cultural heritage. Art lovers will be delighted and challenged.

About the film
Cast & Crew
director
Sonny Quinn

Cast
Alexander Eliot
Frank Herbert Mason
Thomas Hoving
Tom Wolfe
producer
W. Scott Mason
composer
Mauro Colangelo
Stefania De Kenessey
cinematographer
Rick Lopez
editor
Jack Lenk
Josh Backer
Sonny Quinn

Book Review – Earth, Air, Fire and Water

Anyone who dares to delve into the condition of 20th century American life is most probably doing it to earn a doctorate. Not so author Alexander Eliot, 43, an out-of-place, out-of-sorts, self-styled recluse who, on the pine-clad slopes of Mount Pentelikon, near Athens, pondered the question, put down his answer in the dozen meditations of this new book.

Book Review of Earth Air Fire and Water in Time Magazine, December 4, 1962:

Earth Air Fire Water
Anyone who dares to delve into the condition of 20th century American life is most probably doing it to earn a doctorate. Not so author Alexander Eliot, 43, an out-of-place, out-of-sorts, self-styled recluse who, on the pine-clad slopes of Mount Pentelikon, near Athens, pondered the question, put down his answer in the dozen meditations of this new book. Continue reading “Book Review – Earth, Air, Fire and Water”

Three Hundred Years of American Painting

Three Hundred Years of American Painting
(New York: Time, Inc., 1957)

300 Years of American Painting
“American art matters,” declared Eliot in his pitch to write the definitive history of American painting. His compelling anecdotes about the artists, as well as over 1,000 superb color plates, proves that it does. In 1962 John F. Kennedy selected Eliot’s extraordinary and complete history of American painting as one of his favorite books of the year. Continue reading “Three Hundred Years of American Painting”