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Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Roger Kimball
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 06/24/2005
Genre: Art - Criticism & Theory
Synopsis
In this series of essays written over the past twenty years, Roger Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator, illuminates some of the chief spiritual itineraries of modern art. His wide range of subjects includes Vincent van Gogh, Clement Greenberg, the Barnes Foundation, Matthew Barney, Mark Rothko, and the Whitney Biennial, as well as the way in which Gilbert and George demonstrate the psychopathology of current cultural influences.
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