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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... French social myth and so of French culture . He was hailed as the new Caesar Augustus , the bringer of a literal golden age of peace and wealth . " The sun has its spots , " exclaimed one of his courtiers on hearing a complaint about ...
... French social myth and so of French culture . He was hailed as the new Caesar Augustus , the bringer of a literal golden age of peace and wealth . " The sun has its spots , " exclaimed one of his courtiers on hearing a complaint about ...
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... French general Murat . Goya's Dos de Mayo records this moment . Its companion piece , the Tres de Mayo , com- memorates the next night's reprisals , in which about forty madrileños found with weapons were summarily shot by French firing ...
... French general Murat . Goya's Dos de Mayo records this moment . Its companion piece , the Tres de Mayo , com- memorates the next night's reprisals , in which about forty madrileños found with weapons were summarily shot by French firing ...
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... French about America in the twenties or thirties approaches D. H. Lawrence on New Mexico , and there is no French equivalent to the acute , modest - toned , undeceived reportage of Alistair Cooke . No recent French writer has made an ...
... French about America in the twenties or thirties approaches D. H. Lawrence on New Mexico , and there is no French equivalent to the acute , modest - toned , undeceived reportage of Alistair Cooke . No recent French writer has made an ...
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