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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... seem The seats of mightiest Monarchs , and so large The Prospect was , that here and there was room For barren desert ... seems to predict the future at the very moment of assimilating the past . If there were nothing but the Poussins in ...
... seem The seats of mightiest Monarchs , and so large The Prospect was , that here and there was room For barren desert ... seems to predict the future at the very moment of assimilating the past . If there were nothing but the Poussins in ...
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... seems , forces us to squarely face the existential edge of our existence . " In 1971 an American Marxist named Peter Gidal , later to make films as numbing as Warhol's own , declared that " unlike Chagall , Picasso , Rauschenberg ...
... seems , forces us to squarely face the existential edge of our existence . " In 1971 an American Marxist named Peter Gidal , later to make films as numbing as Warhol's own , declared that " unlike Chagall , Picasso , Rauschenberg ...
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... seems quite unable to make a mark that possesses much autonomous grace or power . Likewise , the bigger the work , the more strained its surface . Clemente uses pastel with verve and charm , but in his hands , oil paint becomes a ...
... seems quite unable to make a mark that possesses much autonomous grace or power . Likewise , the bigger the work , the more strained its surface . Clemente uses pastel with verve and charm , but in his hands , oil paint becomes a ...
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