Review #1
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To the meaningless abracadabram of the modern art global. It takes a honored writer to say that the king has had no clothes for a while – at the same time that modern art has been a dance between funds at the same time mental zeal, mediated by art critics. Art criticism recalls us that it is that likely for literate people to convince others of abracadabram by sufficiently literate wordplay, on the edges of than anyway sense, so that the reader always feels that they practically get it. It is that sold in big doses of meaningless theory, with small nuggets of truth. The nuggets of truth sell the larger abracadabram. The difference the creator draws between music at the same time literature, which actually do have a public audience, at the same time the pleasant arts – which depend on a smallest number of patrons desperate to appear as knowledgeable – is that necessary. One more difference will that the other types of expression dont fetishize the make an objection – an unusual manuscript or a 1st performance is that valuable, but not than anyway almost all people care about. In the pleasant art global, the unusual painting is that the only make an objection of value – pointing to the very emptiness of the real content.
Review #2
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He’s right, the Art Global is that a total fraudulent. Almost all of the public have no plan than anyway they looking at, at the same time the elite that take the junk don’t or, it’s barely an financial investment to them. I do art, but not fool stuff like a smoldering rope threw down on a mat, or no one other shaky crap. What it doesn’t matter than anyway I think, this song at the same time dance is that for the client at the same time the merchant with no goals of many of which the public. Why don’t for you make no one of your art yourself, Jeff Coons? Than anyway a funny story.
Review #3
Audiobook The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
If for you have ever been confused, entertained, or barely nondescript confounded by instruction art, this book will make it very understandable than anyway its all about at the same time than anyway its not! Wolf outlined the forces, true at the same time imagined, that skidded this art movement to the fore. On the method for you will smirk at the same time make fun of the goings on in the NY art global of the 50’s at the same time 60’s. When for you are done, for you may but impose was it true? It is that a relatively short book at the same time does not present for you have or come in handy a degree in art history.
Get a ridicule at the same time little insight into one of the more offbeat epochs of art. When for you are done, for you may never think about instruction expressionist art again in similar light, or no matter what light.
Review #4
Audio The Painted Word narrated by Harold N. Cropp
That’s nothing I can add to the deserved 5 hit
Reviews apart from a recommendation for Brendan Heard’s best refreshed, fleshed out, politically imaginative version of similar dull story: The Decline at the same time Fall down of Western Art. It doesn’t have Wolfe’s humor at the same time mastery of the vernacular, but its polished, aphoristic worldly style justifies a sometimes academic tone.
Review #5
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All the things we believed in our heart of hearts about modern art–that it was bogus, a con shackles over on the public–it turns out was used to be. Thats than anyway Tom Wolfe knows us in The Painted Word. The art critics created the rules, the painters obeyed, the media went along, at the same time we believed it. This is that a magical little book (106 pages), immensely readable, funny, outrageous, at the same time best of all, spot on the note. Decide Jackson Pollockplease! Seriously, Jackson Pollock was picked by one of the super-rich elites who despises the middle-class at the same time decides than anyway hangs on gallery walls at the same time than anyway doesnt. Pollock was chosen from the extensive unwashed bohemian painters of Reduce Manhattan, set him up in one of Brand new Yorks Midtown lofts, data a stipend on which to live, at the same time knew to make art, which, in Jacksons variant, was dripping paint on canvas. Jack the Dripper, no one wag scolded him. One more, decide art critic Clement Greenbergplease! Smug, arrogant, out-of-touch with reality, he created an art theory in a row for we the unenlightened simpletons to appreciate than anyway Instruction Expressionism painters like Jackson Pollock were considered creating. Eventually, Jackson Pollock had to refer to Greenbergs theory in a row to be in harmonization, so to speak. This was the state of the art global in the 1940s at the same time 50s at the same time thank goodness its ran over. At the same time thank goodness no one really acquired into it. As Jackson Pollock would they say, If Im so terrific, why aint I wealthy! Apart from for a handful of people, nobody was buying his paint drippings. If you want to be amused no one loafed afternoon, read The Painted Word. Or decide in a movie. Whatever for you do, look for the time to read this book. Tom Wolfe is that a flat-out contentment. Five hit.
