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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... Hockney No English artist has ever been as popular in his own time , with as many people , in as many places , as David Hockney . At fifty - one , an age at which J. M. W. Turner was hardly known in France and Henry Moore was only just ...
... Hockney No English artist has ever been as popular in his own time , with as many people , in as many places , as David Hockney . At fifty - one , an age at which J. M. W. Turner was hardly known in France and Henry Moore was only just ...
Page 337
... Hockney is to think of pictorial skill and a total indiffer- ence ( in the work , at least ) to the dark side of ... Hockney's portraits of his aging parents , in particular , are full of an unabashed filial devotion , and through ...
... Hockney is to think of pictorial skill and a total indiffer- ence ( in the work , at least ) to the dark side of ... Hockney's portraits of his aging parents , in particular , are full of an unabashed filial devotion , and through ...
Page 338
... Hockney's development in the 1960s . Often loosely called a Pop artist , he was only tangentially so . Hockney did not care deeply about mass imagery . What did delight him were the modalities of fine art , as they brushed against print ...
... Hockney's development in the 1960s . Often loosely called a Pop artist , he was only tangentially so . Hockney did not care deeply about mass imagery . What did delight him were the modalities of fine art , as they brushed against print ...
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