Magicians & charlatans
Subtitle: [essays on art and culture]
By: Jed Perl
Publisher: Eakins Press Foundation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780871300690
Subjects: Art and society; Art criticism; Modern Art; History
Other titles: Essays on art and culture
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Our Dadaist : Robert Gober; title: Summer madness : Balthus and "Encounters" at the National Gallery in London; title: The variety show : Tony Oursler, Bill Viola, and contemporary art; title: Saint Gerhard of the sorrows of painting : Gerhard Richter; title: Firings : Noguchi, Ken Price, and ceramics; title: The beauty trap : notes on the return to beauty; title: MoMA, Inc. : the Museum of Modern Art since reopening in 2004; title: Peep shows for poets : Jeremy Blake and experimental cinema; title: Postcards from nowhere : new museums in Los Angeles and New York; title: Private lives : the recession and the art world; title: The opportunist : a life of Leo Castelli; title: Extreme sensibility : Christian Marclay's The clock; title: Ecstasy : reflections on Bernini; title: Ordinary magic : Chardin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; title: Lyricist and empiricist : Gustave Le Gray at the J. Paul Getty Museum; title: Philosophical furnishings : Thomas Hope and Jean-Michel Frank; title: Everyday symbolist : Vuillard at the National Gallery of Art; title: Apollo and Dionysus : Cézanne and Picasso; title: Spiritual matters : Rouault and Chagall; title: A defense of Dada : anti-art revisited; title: The writer's eye : Edmund Wilson and the visual arts; title: Maker and shaper : the life and literature of Lincoln Kirstein; title: From Alabama to Manhattan : remembering David Daniel; title: Half time : Roger Shattuck from The banquet years to Forbidden knowledge; title: Varieties of artistic experience : Meyer Schapiro on medieval and modern art.