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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... Berenson's life , taking him through the years of his Lithuanian childhood , his emigra- tion to America , his ... Berenson , covers the whole life , so that we see the transubstantiation of Berenson the scholar into BB the culture hero ...
... Berenson's life , taking him through the years of his Lithuanian childhood , his emigra- tion to America , his ... Berenson , covers the whole life , so that we see the transubstantiation of Berenson the scholar into BB the culture hero ...
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... Berenson's time it was simply assumed that art critics and art historians were up for sale and on the take , unless they were so rich as not to need the money . To the end of his life , Berenson was sensitive on this point , and he had ...
... Berenson's time it was simply assumed that art critics and art historians were up for sale and on the take , unless they were so rich as not to need the money . To the end of his life , Berenson was sensitive on this point , and he had ...
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... Berenson , its then astonishing price of $ 100,000 set a new plateau for Renaissance paintings and caused almost as great a sensation as the $ 2 million paid for Pollock's Blue ... Berenson was a nineteenth - century Bernard Berenson / 363.
... Berenson , its then astonishing price of $ 100,000 set a new plateau for Renaissance paintings and caused almost as great a sensation as the $ 2 million paid for Pollock's Blue ... Berenson was a nineteenth - century Bernard Berenson / 363.
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