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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... painting Gauguin did eleven years earlier of his daughter asleep with a sinister- looking Punchinello doll at the end of her cot . Gauguin as Impressionist looks dull today , though Pissarro and Degas thought him good enough to show ...
... painting Gauguin did eleven years earlier of his daughter asleep with a sinister- looking Punchinello doll at the end of her cot . Gauguin as Impressionist looks dull today , though Pissarro and Degas thought him good enough to show ...
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... painting it . In reproduction , of course , the paintings become postcards again . But on canvas they have a disconcerting air ; above their anonymous imagery the paint is beginning to assert itself , its texture and weight anxiously at ...
... painting it . In reproduction , of course , the paintings become postcards again . But on canvas they have a disconcerting air ; above their anonymous imagery the paint is beginning to assert itself , its texture and weight anxiously at ...
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... painting . Much has been made of his reliance on chance , but it seems to have affected his life ( he is an inveterate gambler , an addict of the green baize ) more than his art . One could say the ejaculatory blurt of white paint in ...
... painting . Much has been made of his reliance on chance , but it seems to have affected his life ( he is an inveterate gambler , an addict of the green baize ) more than his art . One could say the ejaculatory blurt of white paint in ...
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