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 203
... wanted him too . In 1930 , when he did his enormous fresco cycle of Mexican history in the Palacio de Cortes at Cuernavaca , a work that made no bones about his Communist sympathies , his $ 12,000 fee was paid by Dwight W. Morrow , then ...
... wanted him too . In 1930 , when he did his enormous fresco cycle of Mexican history in the Palacio de Cortes at Cuernavaca , a work that made no bones about his Communist sympathies , his $ 12,000 fee was paid by Dwight W. Morrow , then ...
Page 246
... wanted to get on with their own work avoided the Factory , while the freaks and groupies and curiosity- seekers who filled it left nothing behind them . Its silver - papered walls were a toy theater in which one aspect of the sixties in ...
... wanted to get on with their own work avoided the Factory , while the freaks and groupies and curiosity- seekers who filled it left nothing behind them . Its silver - papered walls were a toy theater in which one aspect of the sixties in ...
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... wanted was something perfectly controllable , a situation rigged by choice , a setup : a hired anonymous figure under floodlights , in a room . For Pearlstein's idea of realism had nothing to do with the conven- tional picture : an ...
... wanted was something perfectly controllable , a situation rigged by choice , a setup : a hired anonymous figure under floodlights , in a room . For Pearlstein's idea of realism had nothing to do with the conven- tional picture : an ...
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