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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... visual arts , where New York lives in a state of continuous hype but diminished expectation , it is merely the echo of a lost time : an echo Americans still eagerly listen to , in their nostalgia for a time when their country seemed ...
... visual arts , where New York lives in a state of continuous hype but diminished expectation , it is merely the echo of a lost time : an echo Americans still eagerly listen to , in their nostalgia for a time when their country seemed ...
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... visual to the point of self- effacement . Now and again , as in his Basket of Wild Strawberries — a glow- ing red cone , compressing the effulgence of a volcano onto the kitchen table , balanced by two white carnations and the cold ...
... visual to the point of self- effacement . Now and again , as in his Basket of Wild Strawberries — a glow- ing red cone , compressing the effulgence of a volcano onto the kitchen table , balanced by two white carnations and the cold ...
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... visual sensation as " objectively " as possible . The work of " these chemists who pile up little dots , " as Gauguin contemptuously named the pointillists , was to the 1890s what Constructiv- ism would be to the 1920s : the house style ...
... visual sensation as " objectively " as possible . The work of " these chemists who pile up little dots , " as Gauguin contemptuously named the pointillists , was to the 1890s what Constructiv- ism would be to the 1920s : the house style ...
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