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 12
... sense of uniqueness and particular scale of works of art , the physical presence Walter Benjamin called their " aura . " One learns from the image flat in the book , cast oversize on the lighted screen , or glimpsed undersize in the ...
... sense of uniqueness and particular scale of works of art , the physical presence Walter Benjamin called their " aura . " One learns from the image flat in the book , cast oversize on the lighted screen , or glimpsed undersize in the ...
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... sense of the capital for centuries to come . They also changed the work of other foreigners in Rome , so that the Caravag- gian style spread all over Europe . Likewise , the careers of Nicolas Poussin and Peter Paul Rubens are ...
... sense of the capital for centuries to come . They also changed the work of other foreigners in Rome , so that the Caravag- gian style spread all over Europe . Likewise , the careers of Nicolas Poussin and Peter Paul Rubens are ...
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... sense , but her work , like that of Louise Bourgeois or Lee Krasner , gives a powerful sense of womanly experience : forms enfold one another , signaling an ambient sense of protection and sexual comfort - an imagery of nurture ...
... sense , but her work , like that of Louise Bourgeois or Lee Krasner , gives a powerful sense of womanly experience : forms enfold one another , signaling an ambient sense of protection and sexual comfort - an imagery of nurture ...
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