Far from Respectable : Dave Hickey and His Art / / Daniel Oppenheimer
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| Autore: |
Oppenheimer Daniel
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| Titolo: |
Far from Respectable : Dave Hickey and His Art / / Daniel Oppenheimer
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| Pubblicazione: | Austin, TX : , : University of Texas Press, , [2021] |
| ©2021 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (150 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 709.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Art critics - United States |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: his blue eden -- Far from respectable, even now -- The semi-transcontinental epiphany tactic -- The value of beauty remains unjustified -- His simple heart. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Far from Respectable |
| ISBN: | 1-4773-2316-3 |
| 1-4773-2315-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788396603321 |
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