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 22
... seen in New York . This type of serious and argued show must be distinguished from the blockbuster that was so much a feature of American cultural life in the seventies . Nobody - or nobody responsible , anyway - believes anymore that ...
... seen in New York . This type of serious and argued show must be distinguished from the blockbuster that was so much a feature of American cultural life in the seventies . Nobody - or nobody responsible , anyway - believes anymore that ...
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... seen as a manual business , a craft . The story of French art in this period is very largely that of painting's struggle to be seen on a level with literature or philosophy . This entailed confronting the source of all great artistic ...
... seen as a manual business , a craft . The story of French art in this period is very largely that of painting's struggle to be seen on a level with literature or philosophy . This entailed confronting the source of all great artistic ...
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... seen since Ingres's day . The five seminal years of this style ( 1886-91 ) are the subject of " Vin- cent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonnism , " at the Art Gallery of Ontario . The exhibition includes a large group by van Gogh ...
... seen since Ingres's day . The five seminal years of this style ( 1886-91 ) are the subject of " Vin- cent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonnism , " at the Art Gallery of Ontario . The exhibition includes a large group by van Gogh ...
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