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The Painted Word

The Painted Word - Paperback

by Tom Wolfe
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tom WolfePublish date:2024-11-05Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250338327ISBN-10:1250338328UPC:9781250338327Book Category:Art, PsychologyBook Subcategory:History, Criticism & TheoryBook Topic:Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:8.25 x 5.44 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SCYN428F6J

Reissued for today's reader with a redesigned cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast, Tom Wolfe trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post).

What has become of art?

In his dazzling and controversial book The Painted Word, Tom Wolfe explores this question and more as he investigates early trends in Modern Art and critiques the critics who dominated the art world during the 1960s and '70s. Wolfe addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. He bring into question the work of famous avant-garde artists like Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and others. With gorgeous, pointed prose, Wolfe investigates what has become of Modern Art and examines the control that art critics have over the art world at large.

Elegant, hilarious, and devastating, The Painted Word presents a sharp critique of the modern state of art.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250338327ISBN-10:1250338328UPC:9781250338327Book Category:Art, PsychologyBook Subcategory:History, Criticism & TheoryBook Topic:Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:8.25 x 5.44 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SCYN428F6J
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of more than a dozen books, including such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. He is credited with coining the term "the Me Decade." Among his many honors, he was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.
Publisher: Picador USA

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