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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... social and political cartoons that the serviles hated on principle , especially English ones by Gillray , Rowlandson and others . They subscribed to skeptical papers such as El Pensador , modeled on Addison's Spectator , and to radical ...
... social and political cartoons that the serviles hated on principle , especially English ones by Gillray , Rowlandson and others . They subscribed to skeptical papers such as El Pensador , modeled on Addison's Spectator , and to radical ...
Page 103
... social portraitist and his passage from France into the English upper crust that would reward him for it began at the Paris Salon of 1884 with the scandalous Madame X. This portrait of Virginie Gautreau , a huntress from New Orleans who ...
... social portraitist and his passage from France into the English upper crust that would reward him for it began at the Paris Salon of 1884 with the scandalous Madame X. This portrait of Virginie Gautreau , a huntress from New Orleans who ...
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... social condensers mattered greatly to Pissarro's way of imagining the world . He was not interested in rural life merely for its own sake , as a refuge or an idyll ; he wanted to paint the relationships between country and town , the social ...
... social condensers mattered greatly to Pissarro's way of imagining the world . He was not interested in rural life merely for its own sake , as a refuge or an idyll ; he wanted to paint the relationships between country and town , the social ...
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