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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... things , straightens out the edges . The periphery yearns for the reassurance of the center to submerge its fragile and only partly definable identity in some- thing manifestly strong . Just as late imperial Roman sculpture looks much ...
... things , straightens out the edges . The periphery yearns for the reassurance of the center to submerge its fragile and only partly definable identity in some- thing manifestly strong . Just as late imperial Roman sculpture looks much ...
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... things he grew up with as a well - off son of a water - mill owner in Suffolk , on the River Stour . " The sound of water escaping from Mill dams willows , Old rotten Banks , slimy posts , and brickwork . I love such things , " he wrote ...
... things he grew up with as a well - off son of a water - mill owner in Suffolk , on the River Stour . " The sound of water escaping from Mill dams willows , Old rotten Banks , slimy posts , and brickwork . I love such things , " he wrote ...
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... things , and he has " always had a theory that things represent themselves . The nature of the question - mark is questionable : you always wonder how come the upper part of the question - mark is always passively following the ball ...
... things , and he has " always had a theory that things represent themselves . The nature of the question - mark is questionable : you always wonder how come the upper part of the question - mark is always passively following the ball ...
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