Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
H ot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings - some long, some short - that taken together forma group portrait of many of the world's most significant and interesting artists. From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman, Old Masters to contemporary masters, paintings to comix, and saints to charlatans, Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and confusing art world, an expert guide to a dazzling scene. No other writer enhances the reader's experience of art in precise, jargon-free prose as Schjeldahl does. His reviews are more essay than criticism, and he offers engaging and informative accounts of artists and their work. For more than three decades, he has written about art with Emersonian openness and clarity. A fresh perspective, an unexpected connection, a lucid gloss on a big idea awaits the reader on every page of this big, absorbing, buzzing book.
| Autor: | Schjeldahl, Peter |
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| EAN: | 9781419734380 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 400 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Abrams & Chronicle Abrams Press |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 06.06.2019 |
| Untertitel: | Nominiert: National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 2020 |
| Schlagworte: | Kunst Künstler modern artists contemporary art famous artists celebrity art picasso cindy sherman old masters comics comix art history art movements realism impressionism pop art artist biography essays art critic new yorker village voice aesthetics warhol |
| Größe: | 31 × 152 × 236 |
| Gewicht: | 633 g |
