Magicians & charlatans / Jed Perl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perl, Jed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art criticism.

Art and society.

Art, Modern--20th century--History.

Art, Modern.

History.

Art, Modern--21st century--History.

Physical Description:

358 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Magicians and charlatans

Subtitle from book jacket : Essays on art and culture

Place of Publication:

New York : Eakins Press Foundation, [2012]

Contents:

Our Dadaist : Robert Gober

Summer madness : Balthus and "Encounters" at the National Gallery in London

The variety show : Tony Oursler, Bill Viola, and contemporary art

Saint Gerhard of the sorrows of painting : Gerhard Richter

Firings : Noguchi, Ken Price, and ceramics

The beauty trap : notes on the return to beauty

MoMA, Inc. : the Museum of Modern Art since reopening in 2004

Peep shows for poets : Jeremy Blake and experimental cinema

Postcards from nowhere : new museums in Los Angeles and New York

Private lives : the recession and the art world

The opportunist : a life of Leo Castelli

Extreme sensibility : Christian Marclay's The clock

Ecstasy : reflections on Bernini

Ordinary magic : Chardin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lyricist and empiricist : Gustave Le Gray at the J. Paul Getty Museum

Philosophical furnishings : Thomas Hope and Jean-Michel Frank

Everyday symbolist : Vuillard at the National Gallery of Art

Apollo and Dionysus : Cézanne and Picasso

Spiritual matters : Rouault and Chagall

A defense of Dada : anti-art revisited

The writer's eye : Edmund Wilson and the visual arts

Maker and shaper : the life and literature of Lincoln Kirstein

From Alabama to Manhattan : remembering David Daniel

Half time : Roger Shattuck from The banquet years to Forbidden knowledge

Varieties of artistic experience : Meyer Schapiro on medieval and modern art.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0871300699

9780871300690

OCLC:

808217537

Publisher Number:

99950482116