Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
Peter Schjeldahl
Hot 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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Peter SchjeldahlPublisher: Abrams PressPublished: 05/12/2020ISBN: 9781419735264Pages: 400Weight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.20d
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Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
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9781419735264
Hot 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Peter Schjeldahl
Publisher: Abrams Press
Published: 05/12/2020
ISBN: 9781419735264
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.20d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Peter Schjeldahl
Publisher: Abrams Press
Published: 05/12/2020
ISBN: 9781419735264
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.20d
Hot 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Peter Schjeldahl
Publisher: Abrams Press
Published: 05/12/2020
ISBN: 9781419735264
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.20d
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Peter Schjeldahl
Publisher: Abrams Press
Published: 05/12/2020
ISBN: 9781419735264
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.20d