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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 73
Page 53
... light of this lantern is not the light shed by Rous- seau's assumptions about the goodness of mankind , or by the hopes of the Spanish reformers that Goya saw crushed at the very moment in 1814 when he was painting The Third of May ...
... light of this lantern is not the light shed by Rous- seau's assumptions about the goodness of mankind , or by the hopes of the Spanish reformers that Goya saw crushed at the very moment in 1814 when he was painting The Third of May ...
Page 172
... light . Nice gave him a different light from that in Paris — a high , constant effulgence with little gray in it , flooding broadly across sea , city and hills , producing luminous shadows and clear tonal structures . It encouraged ...
... light . Nice gave him a different light from that in Paris — a high , constant effulgence with little gray in it , flooding broadly across sea , city and hills , producing luminous shadows and clear tonal structures . It encouraged ...
Page 321
... light — a slice of nature into which , for no discernible reason , five red - spoked wheels of the kind one sees on a child's cart or tricycle have been introduced . It could almost be a real scene : anyone who has beach- combed knows ...
... light — a slice of nature into which , for no discernible reason , five red - spoked wheels of the kind one sees on a child's cart or tricycle have been introduced . It could almost be a real scene : anyone who has beach- combed knows ...
Contents
of the City of Mahagonny | 3 |
Ancestors | 31 |
Nineteenth Century | 89 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstract Abstract Expressionism aesthetic American art American artist Andy Warhol architecture art history art market art world avant-garde Basquiat Baudrillard become Berenson blue canvas Caravaggio career catalogue Cézanne Chirico collectors color Courbet critics Cubist cultural dealers death Degas drawing early Édouard Manet eighties English exhibition expressionist face fantasy feeling figure Frank Auerbach French Gallery Gauguin Gogh Goya Goya's Hockney idea imagery imagine Italian Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Kiefer kind Kooning landscape late light living look Manet mass media Matisse matter Michelangelo modern art modernist Motherwell motif Museum Neo-Expressionism never nineteenth century nude obsessed painter painting Paris parody Picasso pictorial picture Pollock portraits Poussin R. B. Kitaj Renaissance retrospective Rome Rothko scene Schnabel sculpture seems seen sense sixties social Steinberg studio style surface Susan Rothenberg things tion Titian turned visual wanted Warhol watercolors York Zurbarán