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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... Degas The Metropolitan Museum of Art's huge Degas show ( more than three hundred works ) proves once more that - whatever else may be wrong with the art industry - we are still in the golden age of the retrospective exhibition . In the ...
... Degas The Metropolitan Museum of Art's huge Degas show ( more than three hundred works ) proves once more that - whatever else may be wrong with the art industry - we are still in the golden age of the retrospective exhibition . In the ...
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... Degas was much harder to take , with his spiny intelligence ( never Renoir's problem ) , his puzzling mixtures of categories , his unconventional cropping and , above all , his " coldness " -that icy , precise objectivity which was one ...
... Degas was much harder to take , with his spiny intelligence ( never Renoir's problem ) , his puzzling mixtures of categories , his unconventional cropping and , above all , his " coldness " -that icy , precise objectivity which was one ...
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... Degas's studio sale in 1918 , long after his Red Studio was finished . Looking back from old age , Degas reflected that " perhaps I have thought about women as animals too much , " but he had not - although he was certainly reproached ...
... Degas's studio sale in 1918 , long after his Red Studio was finished . Looking back from old age , Degas reflected that " perhaps I have thought about women as animals too much , " but he had not - although he was certainly reproached ...
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