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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... sixties , not only as a stylist but as a moral example of commitment and aesthetic ambition , was much greater than has usually been supposed . His way of filling a canvas with broad fields of color " tuned " by dispersed accumulations ...
... sixties , not only as a stylist but as a moral example of commitment and aesthetic ambition , was much greater than has usually been supposed . His way of filling a canvas with broad fields of color " tuned " by dispersed accumulations ...
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... sixties , became more and more concerned with the desire for and pursuit of publicity . Not surprisingly , many of its figures in those days— crass though genuinely art - loving social climbers such as the Sculls , popinjays such as ...
... sixties , became more and more concerned with the desire for and pursuit of publicity . Not surprisingly , many of its figures in those days— crass though genuinely art - loving social climbers such as the Sculls , popinjays such as ...
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... sixties . Unlike most political art of the time , it looks unpolemical at first , and that is the source of its power . It sums up Rosen- quist's vision of America as an Eden compromised by its own violence . The impact of its neon ...
... sixties . Unlike most political art of the time , it looks unpolemical at first , and that is the source of its power . It sums up Rosen- quist's vision of America as an Eden compromised by its own violence . The impact of its neon ...
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