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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... avant - garde forever gazing ahead to utopian prospects which always recede . But this was not congenial to Americans . Here , avant - gardism em- braced a more businesslike model of novelty and diversity , the fast obsoles- cence of ...
... avant - garde forever gazing ahead to utopian prospects which always recede . But this was not congenial to Americans . Here , avant - gardism em- braced a more businesslike model of novelty and diversity , the fast obsoles- cence of ...
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... avant - garde . Marinetti brilliantly used this appetite by trumpeting an art movement as a broad “ revolution " in living that aims to change life itself , embracing everything from architecture to athletics , politics and sex . The ...
... avant - garde . Marinetti brilliantly used this appetite by trumpeting an art movement as a broad “ revolution " in living that aims to change life itself , embracing everything from architecture to athletics , politics and sex . The ...
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... avant - garde . With their belief in an imperial France whose seigneurs were Cézanne , Matisse and Gaugin , Fry and Bell preferred any imitation of the École de Paris , however pallid , to anything else , however strong . They both ...
... avant - garde . With their belief in an imperial France whose seigneurs were Cézanne , Matisse and Gaugin , Fry and Bell preferred any imitation of the École de Paris , however pallid , to anything else , however strong . They both ...
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