Far from Respectable : Dave Hickey and His Art / Daniel Oppenheimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oppenheimer, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hickey, Dave, 1940-2021.

Hickey, Dave.

Art critics--United States--Biography.

Art critics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Regarded as both a legend and a villain, the critic Dave Hickey has inspired generations of artists, art critics, musicians, and writers. His 1993 book The Invisible Dragon became a cult hit for its potent and provocative critique of the art establishment and its call to reconsider the role of beauty in art. His next book, 1997's Air Guitar, introduced a new kind of cultural criticism--simultaneously insightful, complicated, vulnerable, and down-to-earth--that propelled Hickey to fame as an iconoclastic thinker, loved and loathed in equal measure, whose influence extended beyond the art world. Far from Respectable is a focused, evocative exploration of Hickey's work, his impact on the field of art criticism, and the man himself, from his Huck Finn childhood to his drug-fueled periods as both a New York gallerist and Nashville songwriter to, finally, his anointment as a tenured professor and MacArthur Fellow. Drawing on in-person interviews with Hickey, his friends and family, and art world comrades and critics, Daniel Oppenheimer examines the controversial writer's distinctive takes on a broad range of subjects, including Normal Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, academia, Las Vegas, basketball, country music, and considers how Hickey and his vision of an "ethical, cosmopolitan paganism" built around a generous definition of art is more urgently needed than ever before"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: his blue eden

Far from respectable, even now

The semi-transcontinental epiphany tactic

The value of beauty remains unjustified

His simple heart.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-2316-3

1-4773-2315-5

OCLC:

1201693364