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 131
... figure over the doorway , a Dante dreaming the whole Inferno ) to the battalion of flying , crouching , writhing ... figure " -the headless striding man , or the spraddled , capering figure of Iris , Messenger of the Gods - went beyond ...
... figure over the doorway , a Dante dreaming the whole Inferno ) to the battalion of flying , crouching , writhing ... figure " -the headless striding man , or the spraddled , capering figure of Iris , Messenger of the Gods - went beyond ...
Page 166
... figure down to a mere gesture of forged bar - iron , surmounted by a spiky quiff of metal hair ; a metal plate with two cuts and a couple of bends would both evoke a face and suggest a " primi- tive " African mask . If his work touched ...
... figure down to a mere gesture of forged bar - iron , surmounted by a spiky quiff of metal hair ; a metal plate with two cuts and a couple of bends would both evoke a face and suggest a " primi- tive " African mask . If his work touched ...
Page 216
... figure as a strictly formal affair : patch for the dress or bathing suit , patch for face , no detail . In the ... figure drawing , and Avery lacked it ; his attitude was too distanced , his style too mannered and crotchety . His figures ...
... figure as a strictly formal affair : patch for the dress or bathing suit , patch for face , no detail . In the ... figure drawing , and Avery lacked it ; his attitude was too distanced , his style too mannered and crotchety . His figures ...
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