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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... expressionist content . What obsessively concerns him is the idea that each drawing remakes its author : it is a mask , a card of identity , but also a proof of existence . The self - made artist is one of his favorite motifs , and ...
... expressionist content . What obsessively concerns him is the idea that each drawing remakes its author : it is a mask , a card of identity , but also a proof of existence . The self - made artist is one of his favorite motifs , and ...
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... expressionist faces with their poached - egg eyes , the clumsy line and the fumbling inability to relate a form to the space around it by the energy of its contour were all there from the beginning . In short , because there was never a ...
... expressionist faces with their poached - egg eyes , the clumsy line and the fumbling inability to relate a form to the space around it by the energy of its contour were all there from the beginning . In short , because there was never a ...
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... expressionism : these are the signs of the pessimistic alienation to which a history of extreme mass suffering has ... expressionist but as a realist who nevertheless stakes the outcome of his art on an opposition between intelligence ...
... expressionism : these are the signs of the pessimistic alienation to which a history of extreme mass suffering has ... expressionist but as a realist who nevertheless stakes the outcome of his art on an opposition between intelligence ...
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