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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... a political artist alive who does not dream of having Courbet's breadth of public address — a yearning frustrated by the obscurity of late - modernist art discourse and neutralized by Courbet in Brooklyn / 97 Courbet in Brooklyn.
... a political artist alive who does not dream of having Courbet's breadth of public address — a yearning frustrated by the obscurity of late - modernist art discourse and neutralized by Courbet in Brooklyn / 97 Courbet in Brooklyn.
Page 98
... Courbet whole in nearly thirty years . Unlike the Courbet exhibition in Paris in 1977 , it leaves out several of the most ambitious paintings with which he planted the Realist argument in the culture of the Second Empire : Burial at ...
... Courbet whole in nearly thirty years . Unlike the Courbet exhibition in Paris in 1977 , it leaves out several of the most ambitious paintings with which he planted the Realist argument in the culture of the Second Empire : Burial at ...
Page 99
... Courbet's Stonebreakers , or with the frieze of worn faces and homespun black suits in Burial at Ornans . He painted , someone gibed , the way one waxed boots . He was seen not only as a dangerous socialist , but as a besmircher of the ...
... Courbet's Stonebreakers , or with the frieze of worn faces and homespun black suits in Burial at Ornans . He painted , someone gibed , the way one waxed boots . He was seen not only as a dangerous socialist , but as a besmircher of the ...
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