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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... Zurbarán was more or less written into cultural exis- tence by Théophile Gautier in 1844 , on a visit to Seville : Monks of Zurbarán , white - robed Carthusians who , in the shadows , Pass silently over the stones of the dead ...
... Zurbarán was more or less written into cultural exis- tence by Théophile Gautier in 1844 , on a visit to Seville : Monks of Zurbarán , white - robed Carthusians who , in the shadows , Pass silently over the stones of the dead ...
Page 66
... Zurbarán loses in darkness to suggest the her- metic nature of the saint's vision . The saint's gaping mouth is doubled in the eye sockets of the skull he clutches . The eyeline is set low , so that the saint towers over you even as he ...
... Zurbarán loses in darkness to suggest the her- metic nature of the saint's vision . The saint's gaping mouth is doubled in the eye sockets of the skull he clutches . The eyeline is set low , so that the saint towers over you even as he ...
Page 67
... Zurbarán could only quote from Velázquez's Surrender at Breda without achieving anything like its seamless integration . When a composition with many figures worked for Zurbarán , it was almost always arranged in friezes parallel to the ...
... Zurbarán could only quote from Velázquez's Surrender at Breda without achieving anything like its seamless integration . When a composition with many figures worked for Zurbarán , it was almost always arranged in friezes parallel to the ...
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of the City of Mahagonny | 3 |
Ancestors | 31 |
Nineteenth Century | 89 |
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