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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... parody of the Madonna fixations of Warhol's own Catholic childhood , of the pretentious enlargement of media stars by a secular culture , and of the similarities between both . The rapid negligence of Warhol's images parodied the way ...
... parody of the Madonna fixations of Warhol's own Catholic childhood , of the pretentious enlargement of media stars by a secular culture , and of the similarities between both . The rapid negligence of Warhol's images parodied the way ...
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... parody of bravura . You have to think of a lot of my work as some sort of parody of talent . Of course , parody is not an attack ; you cannot parody anything you can't love . But I wish to create a fiction of skill in the same sense ...
... parody of bravura . You have to think of a lot of my work as some sort of parody of talent . Of course , parody is not an attack ; you cannot parody anything you can't love . But I wish to create a fiction of skill in the same sense ...
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... parodying established modern masterpieces ( Matisse's Red Studio , or the Cubist work of Picasso and Juan Gris , or Carlo Carrà's Red Horseman ) is to see a very informed mind at work , particularly at obscure levels of parody . How ...
... parodying established modern masterpieces ( Matisse's Red Studio , or the Cubist work of Picasso and Juan Gris , or Carlo Carrà's Red Horseman ) is to see a very informed mind at work , particularly at obscure levels of parody . How ...
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