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 140
... style and loved referring to other art . " I cannot now change my style , which I acquired , as you can imagine , by dint of stubborn labor , " he wrote to a critic shortly before his death . He wanted his work to be a homemade replica ...
... style and loved referring to other art . " I cannot now change my style , which I acquired , as you can imagine , by dint of stubborn labor , " he wrote to a critic shortly before his death . He wanted his work to be a homemade replica ...
Page 326
... style and his constant inge- nuity at fitting stacks of faces into difficult and mannered formats , given his ... style as an end in itself , and Katz has a near - Warholian indifference to meaning : “ I'd like to have style take the ...
... style and his constant inge- nuity at fitting stacks of faces into difficult and mannered formats , given his ... style as an end in itself , and Katz has a near - Warholian indifference to meaning : “ I'd like to have style take the ...
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... Style by Philip Johnson and Henry - Russell Hitchcock , the foreign manner was taken up by the Museum of Modern Art , shed its " real " aim ( the promotion of socialism ) and became the house style of American capitalism . Wolfe seems ...
... Style by Philip Johnson and Henry - Russell Hitchcock , the foreign manner was taken up by the Museum of Modern Art , shed its " real " aim ( the promotion of socialism ) and became the house style of American capitalism . Wolfe seems ...
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