The Painted Word
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312427581 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
What could be more absurd, after all, than endless Jesuitical disputes about the flatness of the picture plane? So most of them get a highly comical spanking from the author. --James Marcus. It's about the history of taste and middlebrow acquisition--and nobody has chronicled these two topics as hilariously or accurately as Tom Wolfe. He did! Much of The Painted Word is a superb burlesque on that modern mating ritual whereby artists get to despise their middle-class audience and accommodate it at the same time. It's worth pointing out, of course, that Wolfe paints with a broad (as it were) brush.
Tom Wolfe is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. . He lives in New York City
The Painted Word is Tom Wolfe "at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent" (San Francisco Chronicle).. "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post)Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual
Finally, an explanation of the nonsense AmazonJunkie A friend gave me "Why your 5-year old Could Not Have Done That", which was extremely unsatisfying as it quickly got into Art Theory's Conceptualism as the "Reason". This book, while unnecessarily snarky much of the time, at least presents a believable scenario. I had sought such explanation from curators, docents, and others in my peregrinations through museums and private collections, but this was the first time the explanation made sense. Kudos to the author (and hisses to the editor).. This book is done with great insight, concision Will Classic antidote to the pretensions of the so called "art" of painting in latter half of the 20th century. Drips, vulgarity, no-talent minimalism and the Pop swindle should not be taken seriously, but scorned out of court. The Emperor has no clothes. Art gone to dead seed. This book is done with great insight, concision, and good humor. Wolfe did similar demolition on Mod. architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.. "Satire? No --" according to wiredweird. That would require some element of fiction. This is simply a straight telling (well, almost straight) of the taste-makers and -breakers in the New York art scene of the 1950s to mid-70s. It's already so ludicrous, so filled with poker-faced parodies of sane discussion, that fiction wouldn't be nearly as strange. It's the complete domination of analysis over analyte.This short book (100 pages, including some amusing cartoons) lampoons the whole theory of art theory as it arose in the salons and saloons of that era. It briefly traces the