Oppenheimer Daniel Oppenheimer

Far From Respectable (eBook, ePUB)

Dave Hickey and His Art

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finalist, 2021 Writers League of Texas Book AwardRegarded 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 Norman 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 149
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781477323168
• Artikelnr.: 72307481