LEADER 02863nam 2200469 450 001 9910788396603321 005 20240116064059.0 010 $a1-4773-2316-3 010 $a1-4773-2315-5 024 7 $a10.7560/320150 035 $a(CKB)27411788900041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30651829 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30651829 035 $a(DE-B1597)625672 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477323151 035 $a(EXLCZ)9927411788900041 100 $a20240116d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFar from Respectable $eDave Hickey and His Art /$fDaniel Oppenheimer 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin, TX :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (150 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a9781477320150 327 $aIntroduction: his blue eden -- Far from respectable, even now -- The semi-transcontinental epiphany tactic -- The value of beauty remains unjustified -- His simple heart. 330 $a"Regarded as both a legend and a villain, the critic Dave Hickey has inspired generations of artists, art critics, musicians, and writers. His 1993 book The Invisible Dragon became a cult hit for its potent and provocative critique of the art establishment and its call to reconsider the role of beauty in art. His next book, 1997's Air Guitar, introduced a new kind of cultural criticism--simultaneously insightful, complicated, vulnerable, and down-to-earth--that propelled Hickey to fame as an iconoclastic thinker, loved and loathed in equal measure, whose influence extended beyond the art world. Far from Respectable is a focused, evocative exploration of Hickey's work, his impact on the field of art criticism, and the man himself, from his Huck Finn childhood to his drug-fueled periods as both a New York gallerist and Nashville songwriter to, finally, his anointment as a tenured professor and MacArthur Fellow. Drawing on in-person interviews with Hickey, his friends and family, and art world comrades and critics, Daniel Oppenheimer examines the controversial writer's distinctive takes on a broad range of subjects, including Normal Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, academia, Las Vegas, basketball, country music, and considers how Hickey and his vision of an "ethical, cosmopolitan paganism" built around a generous definition of art is more urgently needed than ever before"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aArt critics$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aArt critics 676 $a709.2 700 $aOppenheimer$b Daniel$01497342 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788396603321 996 $aFar from Respectable$93722416 997 $aUNINA