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Nothing If Not Critical
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-02-22
Nothing If Not Critical written by Robert Hughes and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-22 with Art categories.
From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present. As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired writer on art. In this book: nearly a hundred of his finest essays on the subject. For the realism of Thomas Eakins to the Soviet satirists Komar and Melamid, from Watteau to Willem de Kooning to Susan Rothenberg, here is Hughes—astute, vivid and uninhibited—on dozens of famous and not-so-famous artists. He observes that Caravaggio was “one of the hinges of art history; there was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same”; he remarks that Julian Schnabel’s “work is to painting what Stallone’s is to acting”; he calls John Constable’s Wivenhoe Park “almost the last word on Eden-as-Property”; he notes how “distorted traces of [Jackson] Pollock lie like genes in art-world careers that, one might have thought, had nothing to do with his.” He knows how Norman Rockwell made a chicken stand still long enough to be painted, and what Degas said about success (some kinds are indistinguishable from panic). Phrasemaker par excellence, Hughes is at the same time an incisive and profound critic, not only of particular artists, but also of the social context in which art exists and is traded. His fresh perceptions of such figures as Andy Warhol and the French writer Jean Baudrillard are matched in brilliance by his pungent discussions of the art market—its inflated prices and reputations, its damage to the public domain of culture. There is a superb essay on Bernard Berenson, and another on the strange, tangled case of the Mark Rothko estate. And as a finale, Hughes gives us “The SoHoiad,” the mock-epic satire that so amused and annoyed the art world in the mid-1980s. A meteor of a book that enlightens, startles, stimulates and entertains.
Nothing If Not Critical
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Nothing If Not Critical written by Robert Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
Nothing If Not Critical
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Nothing If Not Critical written by Robert Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Art categories.
If Not Critical
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Author : Eric Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
If Not Critical written by Eric Griffiths and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Collections categories.
Eric Griffiths' lectures were attended by hundreds, yet the lectures were never turned into books. Published here for the first time, the ten lectures range across literary periods and European languages to address, among many other things, practical criticism, comedy, and tragedy.
The American Heritage Dictionary Of Idioms
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Author : Christine Ammer
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2013-05-07
The American Heritage Dictionary Of Idioms written by Christine Ammer and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Reference categories.
From “all systems go” to “senior moment”—a comprehensive reference to idiomatic English. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms explores the meanings and origins of idioms that may not make literal sense but play an important role in the language—including phrasal verbs such as kick back, proverbs such as too many cooks spoil the broth, interjections such as tough beans, and figures of speech such as elephant in the room. With extensive revisions that reflect new historical scholarship and changes in the English language, this second edition defines over 10,000 idiomatic expressions in greater detail than any other dictionary available today—a remarkable reference for those studying the English language, or anyone who enjoys learning its many wonderful quirks and expressions. “Invaluable as a teaching tool.” —School Library Journal
Reasoner And Theological Examiner
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1849
Reasoner And Theological Examiner written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1849 with categories.
Secular World And Social Economist
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Author : George Jacob Holyoake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1849
Secular World And Social Economist written by George Jacob Holyoake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1849 with Secularism categories.
"The History of the Fleet Street House": 20 p. at the end of v. 18.
Midsummer Night S Dream Much Ado About Nothing Love S Labour S Lost Taming Of The Shrew
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1823
Midsummer Night S Dream Much Ado About Nothing Love S Labour S Lost Taming Of The Shrew written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1823 with categories.
The Dramatic Works Of William Shakespeare Midsummer Night S Dream Much Ado Nothing Love S Labours Lost Taming Of The Shrew
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1817
The Dramatic Works Of William Shakespeare Midsummer Night S Dream Much Ado Nothing Love S Labours Lost Taming Of The Shrew written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1817 with categories.
Henry James S Style Of Retrospect
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Author : Oliver Herford
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-26
Henry James S Style Of Retrospect written by Oliver Herford and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Henry James's Style of Retrospect traces James's engagement with the writing of the recent past across the last twenty-five years of his life and examines the thoroughgoing change his style underwent in this last phase of his career, as his focus turned from the observation of contemporary manners to biographical commemoration and autobiographical reminiscence, and the balance of his output gradually shifted from fiction to non-fiction. The 'late personal writings' of the book's subtitle are works of retrospective non-fiction. They are a varied group, representing a broad array of genres and occasions: commemorative essays and obituary tributes, textual revisions and accounts of revisiting familiar places, cultural and literary criticism, biography and autobiography, and family memoir. Oliver Herford proposes that we read the late personal writings as a coherent sequence, bound together by a close texture of cross-references and allusive echoes, and united by James's newly discovered sense for the literary possibilities of non-fiction. Closely analyzing the style of these writings, this study offers a boldly revisionist account of the way style itself challenges and preoccupies the very late James. A linked series of innovative close readings takes the major works of this period in sequence, addressing a key point of style in each: particular attention is paid to procedures of reference (to the historical past, to real persons and places and objects), a dimension of style often neglected and sometimes actively slighted in analyses of James's late work. Henry James's Style of Retrospect asks what it means for so distinguished a novelist to alter the foundations of his written manner so strikingly in late life, and shows how we may begin to reconfigure our understanding of late Jamesian aesthetics accordingly.