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Magicians & charlatans / Jed Perl.

By: Publication details: New York : Eakins Press Foundation, c2012.Description: 358 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0871300699
  • 9780871300690
Other title:
  • Magicians and charlatans
  • Subtitle from book jacket : Essays on art and culture
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.04 23
LOC classification:
  • N7445.2 .P47 2012
Contents:
Our Dadaist : Robert Gober -- Summer madness : Balthus and "Encounters" at the National Gallery in London -- The variety show : Tony Oursler, Bill Viola, and contemporary art -- Saint Gerhard of the sorrows of painting : Gerhard Richter -- Firings : Noguchi, Ken Price, and ceramics -- The beauty trap : notes on the return to beauty -- MoMA, Inc. : the Museum of Modern Art since reopening in 2004 -- Peep shows for poets : Jeremy Blake and experimental cinema -- Postcards from nowhere : new museums in Los Angeles and New York -- Private lives : the recession and the art world -- The opportunist : a life of Leo Castelli -- Extreme sensibility : Christian Marclay's The clock -- Ecstasy : reflections on Bernini -- Ordinary magic : Chardin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Lyricist and empiricist : Gustave Le Gray at the J. Paul Getty Museum -- Philosophical furnishings : Thomas Hope and Jean-Michel Frank -- Everyday symbolist : Vuillard at the National Gallery of Art -- Apollo and Dionysus : CeÌzanne and Picasso -- Spiritual matters : Rouault and Chagall -- A defense of Dada : anti-art revisited -- The writer's eye : Edmund Wilson and the visual arts -- Maker and shaper : the life and literature of Lincoln Kirstein -- From Alabama to Manhattan : remembering David Daniel -- Half tame : Roger Shattuck from The banquet years to Forbidden knowledge -- Varieties of artistic experience : Meyer Schapiro on medieval and modern art.
Summary: "The Eakins Press Foundation is proud to announce the publication of Magicians & Charlatans, by the art critic Jed Perl. In this collection of 26 essays, Mr. Perl writes with great urgency about the art scene of the past decade. The poet John Ashbery has said that "For years Jed Perl has been covering the art world with tremendous empathy and unsparing accuracy. His ability to recognize the traditional forms of art behind their continual transmutation has made his an almost solitary, essential voice." The essays range from highly controversial critiques of the painter Gerhard Richter, the art dealer Leo Castelli, and the Museum of Modern Art, to appreciations of the art of Bernini and Chardin, and the writings of Edmund Wilson and Meyer Schapiro." -- Publisher's description.
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Includes index.

Our Dadaist : Robert Gober -- Summer madness : Balthus and "Encounters" at the National Gallery in London -- The variety show : Tony Oursler, Bill Viola, and contemporary art -- Saint Gerhard of the sorrows of painting : Gerhard Richter -- Firings : Noguchi, Ken Price, and ceramics -- The beauty trap : notes on the return to beauty -- MoMA, Inc. : the Museum of Modern Art since reopening in 2004 -- Peep shows for poets : Jeremy Blake and experimental cinema -- Postcards from nowhere : new museums in Los Angeles and New York -- Private lives : the recession and the art world -- The opportunist : a life of Leo Castelli -- Extreme sensibility : Christian Marclay's The clock -- Ecstasy : reflections on Bernini -- Ordinary magic : Chardin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Lyricist and empiricist : Gustave Le Gray at the J. Paul Getty Museum -- Philosophical furnishings : Thomas Hope and Jean-Michel Frank -- Everyday symbolist : Vuillard at the National Gallery of Art -- Apollo and Dionysus : CeÌzanne and Picasso -- Spiritual matters : Rouault and Chagall -- A defense of Dada : anti-art revisited -- The writer's eye : Edmund Wilson and the visual arts -- Maker and shaper : the life and literature of Lincoln Kirstein -- From Alabama to Manhattan : remembering David Daniel -- Half tame : Roger Shattuck from The banquet years to Forbidden knowledge -- Varieties of artistic experience : Meyer Schapiro on medieval and modern art.

"The Eakins Press Foundation is proud to announce the publication of Magicians & Charlatans, by the art critic Jed Perl. In this collection of 26 essays, Mr. Perl writes with great urgency about the art scene of the past decade. The poet John Ashbery has said that "For years Jed Perl has been covering the art world with tremendous empathy and unsparing accuracy. His ability to recognize the traditional forms of art behind their continual transmutation has made his an almost solitary, essential voice." The essays range from highly controversial critiques of the painter Gerhard Richter, the art dealer Leo Castelli, and the Museum of Modern Art, to appreciations of the art of Bernini and Chardin, and the writings of Edmund Wilson and Meyer Schapiro." -- Publisher's description.

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