num_pages: 404
description: Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writingssome long some shortthat taken together forma group portrait of many of the worlds most significant and interesting artists. From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman Old Masters to contemporary masters paintings to comix and saints to charlatans Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and confusing art world an expert guide to a dazzling scene. No other writer enhances the readers 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.
language: English
title: Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
publisher: Abrams Press