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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Page 78
... landscape in paint what William Wordsworth did to it in verse : he threw out the allegorical fauna that had infested it since Milton and the Rococo - nymphs , satyrs , dryads , Virgilian shepherds and Ovidian spring deities - and ...
... landscape in paint what William Wordsworth did to it in verse : he threw out the allegorical fauna that had infested it since Milton and the Rococo - nymphs , satyrs , dryads , Virgilian shepherds and Ovidian spring deities - and ...
Page 144
... landscape gave him confidence . It affected even those paintings in which no landscape occurs , such as the self - portrait of Vincent with a shaved head , gazing not at but past the viewer with an intensity ( conferred by the unearthly ...
... landscape gave him confidence . It affected even those paintings in which no landscape occurs , such as the self - portrait of Vincent with a shaved head , gazing not at but past the viewer with an intensity ( conferred by the unearthly ...
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... landscape : the rapid , shifting notation of dots , speckles and slashes in the drawings , with the white paper burning like noon light behind the sepia ink ; the characteristic spirals of the paintbrush , which link back to the ...
... landscape : the rapid , shifting notation of dots , speckles and slashes in the drawings , with the white paper burning like noon light behind the sepia ink ; the characteristic spirals of the paintbrush , which link back to the ...
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