Schjeldahl Peter - Hot Cold Heavy Light 100 Art Writings 1988 - 2018 - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings from 1988 - 2018 some long some short that taken together form a group portrait of many of the world's most significant and interesting artists. Introduction by Jarrett Earnest From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman Old Masters to contemporary masters paintings to comix and saints to charlatans art critic Peter Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and confusing art world an expert guide to a dazzling scene. No other writer enhances the reader's experience of art in precise jargon - free prose as Schjeldahl does. His reviews are more essay than criticism and he offers engaging and informative accounts of artists and their work. For more than three decades he has written about art with Emersonian openness and clarity. A fresh perspective an unexpected connection a lucid gloss on a big idea awaits the reader on every page of this big absorbing buzzing book. Hot Cold Heavy Light is the apex of artistic criticism and commentary. Steve Martin The great New Yorker art critic writes like an angel about everyone from Vermeer to Picasso Donatello to Andy Warhol in beautiful enjoyable accessible essays across 30 years. Philadelphia Inquirer
Title: Hot Cold Heavy Light 100 Art Writings 1988 - 2018
Author(s): Schjeldahl Peter
Publisher: Abrams
Barcode: 9781419735264
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 5/12/2020
Category: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles