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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... turned out by the frescoed acre by artists such as Caravaggio's early master , Giuseppe Cesari , alias the Cavaliere d'Arpino . Garrulous , overconceptual- ized and feverishly secondhand , Roman art in the 1590s was in some ways like ...
... turned out by the frescoed acre by artists such as Caravaggio's early master , Giuseppe Cesari , alias the Cavaliere d'Arpino . Garrulous , overconceptual- ized and feverishly secondhand , Roman art in the 1590s was in some ways like ...
Page 84
... turned to us . Great artists invent things that sound banal . Watteau invented the draped human back . This sounds simple , a matter of mere observation ; it was not . In his hands the human back , preferably of a young woman , became ...
... turned to us . Great artists invent things that sound banal . Watteau invented the draped human back . This sounds simple , a matter of mere observation ; it was not . In his hands the human back , preferably of a young woman , became ...
Page 84
... turned to us . Great artists invent things that sound banal . Watteau invented the draped human back . This sounds simple , a matter of mere observation ; it was not . In his hands the human back , preferably of a young woman , became ...
... turned to us . Great artists invent things that sound banal . Watteau invented the draped human back . This sounds simple , a matter of mere observation ; it was not . In his hands the human back , preferably of a young woman , became ...
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