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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... architecture at the Polytechnic . " It was clear to me that I could never become an architect , because of the horror of dealing with people that architecture involves . I knew it from the beginning , but I went on with it . One learned ...
... architecture at the Polytechnic . " It was clear to me that I could never become an architect , because of the horror of dealing with people that architecture involves . I knew it from the beginning , but I went on with it . One learned ...
Page 367
... architecture , and weirder still for its public . In the United States , vast numbers of new buildings go up . Whole malls and " living communities " rise overnight , like sprouting mushrooms in a time - lapse movie , each a ...
... architecture , and weirder still for its public . In the United States , vast numbers of new buildings go up . Whole malls and " living communities " rise overnight , like sprouting mushrooms in a time - lapse movie , each a ...
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... architecture , epitomized by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright . But in the thirties its heritage was traded off ... architecture has no chance . Within the academic taste centers , Wolfe says , " there was no way for an architect to ...
... architecture , epitomized by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright . But in the thirties its heritage was traded off ... architecture has no chance . Within the academic taste centers , Wolfe says , " there was no way for an architect to ...
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