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 166
... sculpture to come . There is no doubt that Picasso was the inventor of planar and then linear iron sculpture in the twentieth century . But through Gonzalez , this fundamental addition to the sculptor's repertory was given a syntax ...
... sculpture to come . There is no doubt that Picasso was the inventor of planar and then linear iron sculpture in the twentieth century . But through Gonzalez , this fundamental addition to the sculptor's repertory was given a syntax ...
Page 207
... sculpture that has been made in the United States since 1960 . Smith was an extremely fecund artist . One array of steel parts pushed around on the floor of his studio could set off a train of associations that led with Picassoan ...
... sculpture that has been made in the United States since 1960 . Smith was an extremely fecund artist . One array of steel parts pushed around on the floor of his studio could set off a train of associations that led with Picassoan ...
Page 209
... sculptures encourages one to read them too readily as effigies of the figure . The same object , horizontal , would not be seen as a recumbent personage or sentinel . But in the end , the body messages of Smith's sculpture do not depend ...
... sculptures encourages one to read them too readily as effigies of the figure . The same object , horizontal , would not be seen as a recumbent personage or sentinel . But in the end , the body messages of Smith's sculpture do not depend ...
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