Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and ArtistsThe most controversial art critic in America and author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art, artists, and the art world-from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo. -- Back cover. |
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... modernist creed , and hence of culture as such . The idea of an avant - garde was born in the nineteenth century ... modernist self - awareness in art : disconnection and loss on one hand - the loss of a secure social past , of a ...
... modernist creed , and hence of culture as such . The idea of an avant - garde was born in the nineteenth century ... modernist self - awareness in art : disconnection and loss on one hand - the loss of a secure social past , of a ...
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... modernist critics and the collectors they influenced were going to make capital from his youth while insulting his maturity , then let them eat fake . Why should he not profit from the fact that early de Chiricos fetched ten or twenty ...
... modernist critics and the collectors they influenced were going to make capital from his youth while insulting his maturity , then let them eat fake . Why should he not profit from the fact that early de Chiricos fetched ten or twenty ...
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... modernism . For an art writer to have lived through one of the supreme periods in Western art history , the forty years ... modernist experience was allowed time in I Tatti . Late in life , Berenson would claim that he had " discov- ered ...
... modernism . For an art writer to have lived through one of the supreme periods in Western art history , the forty years ... modernist experience was allowed time in I Tatti . Late in life , Berenson would claim that he had " discov- ered ...
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