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 11
... motifs and crafts the sublime freedom with which Luis Domenech y Montaner deployed his Catalan traditions of ironwork ... motif - were hostile to " creativity . " This fiction enabled Americans to ignore the inconvenient fact that ...
... motifs and crafts the sublime freedom with which Luis Domenech y Montaner deployed his Catalan traditions of ironwork ... motif - were hostile to " creativity . " This fiction enabled Americans to ignore the inconvenient fact that ...
Page 147
... motif , the cypress ( of which the real landscape around St. - Rémy is now disappoint- ingly short ) , he went to great trouble to set forth the realities inside its hairy , obelisk - like silhouette : the mauve cast of shadow on the ...
... motif , the cypress ( of which the real landscape around St. - Rémy is now disappoint- ingly short ) , he went to great trouble to set forth the realities inside its hairy , obelisk - like silhouette : the mauve cast of shadow on the ...
Page 265
... motifs , and certainly his most famous : a little man grasping the pen that draws him . In this " self - portrait , " artist and motif are fused , locked in a permanent logical impossibility which is also an ambition of poetry : Myself ...
... motifs , and certainly his most famous : a little man grasping the pen that draws him . In this " self - portrait , " artist and motif are fused , locked in a permanent logical impossibility which is also an ambition of poetry : Myself ...
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