How to See

How to See collects David Salle's essays on art and the artists who made it, many of them his friends and contemporaries. Salle, a painter, writes about figures including Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein and Alex Katz, attending as closely to their personalities as to the character of their work.

In place of art-theory jargon, Salle relies on precise, physical description of what is on the canvas, the way one painter talks to another in the studio. The paperback is published by W. W. Norton.