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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Page 54
... Goya the Incipient Marxist , in whose work the class struggle is set forth and predicted from the eyeline of the workers . This view is based partly on his own humble birth , but it ignores some of Goya's opinions of the common people ...
... Goya the Incipient Marxist , in whose work the class struggle is set forth and predicted from the eyeline of the workers . This view is based partly on his own humble birth , but it ignores some of Goya's opinions of the common people ...
Page 57
... Goya's owls and cats are not . And yet I find it hard to suppose that Goya's image is not a recycling of The Temptation of St. Anthony , and harder still to believe that this was not a partly deliberate choice , signaling his own ...
... Goya's owls and cats are not . And yet I find it hard to suppose that Goya's image is not a recycling of The Temptation of St. Anthony , and harder still to believe that this was not a partly deliberate choice , signaling his own ...
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... Goya's portraits of them are a positive act of charity . Goya could fill his portrait of General José de Palafox , the popular hero of the defense of Saragossa , with quite unironic enthusiasm . But he did the same with one of his most ...
... Goya's portraits of them are a positive act of charity . Goya could fill his portrait of General José de Palafox , the popular hero of the defense of Saragossa , with quite unironic enthusiasm . But he did the same with one of his most ...
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