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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... Baudrillard is no friend of Occam's razor : he wants to multiply simulacra forever in order to push reality out of ... Baudrillard's American fans revel in this , perhaps because his apocalyptic view of mass media excites a deep vein of ...
... Baudrillard is no friend of Occam's razor : he wants to multiply simulacra forever in order to push reality out of ... Baudrillard's American fans revel in this , perhaps because his apocalyptic view of mass media excites a deep vein of ...
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... Baudrillard calls a " vertigo of interpretation " is not vertigo at all , but complacency . He is saying , in effect ... Baudrillard's terms , thought's purchase on the world of human action was negligible , something to be impatiently ...
... Baudrillard calls a " vertigo of interpretation " is not vertigo at all , but complacency . He is saying , in effect ... Baudrillard's terms , thought's purchase on the world of human action was negligible , something to be impatiently ...
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... Baudrillard is doted on . This may seem odd , since he has written very little about the visual arts ; he is ... Baudrillard's taste for absolute prescriptions , that ad - mass imagery has floated free of its already tenuous grounding in ...
... Baudrillard is doted on . This may seem odd , since he has written very little about the visual arts ; he is ... Baudrillard's taste for absolute prescriptions , that ad - mass imagery has floated free of its already tenuous grounding in ...
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