Art's prospect : the challenge of tradition in an age of celebrity by Kimball, Roger, 1953- instant download

Art's prospect : the challenge of tradition in an age of celebrity by Kimball, Roger, 1953- instant download

xi, 275 pages ; 22 cm, \"In Art's Prospect, Mr. Kimball observes that most of the really invigorating action in the art world today is a quiet affair. It takes place not at the Tate Modern in London or at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, not in the Chelsea of TriBeCa galleries, but off to one side, out of the limelight. It usually involves not the latest thing but permanent things - they can be new or old, but their relevance is measured not by the buzz they create but by the silence they inspire.\"--Jacket, Includes index, The museum as funhouse ; Minimalist fantasies ; Betraying a legacy : the case of the Barnes Foundation ; Can art be defined? ; Julius Meier-Graefe discovers El Greco ; Felix Feneon discovers Seurat ; Roger Fry ; Michael Fried does Courbet ; Feeling sorry for Rosalind Krauss ; The achievement of Clement Greenberg -- Paul Gauguin and the ideal of the primitive ; Vincent van Gogh ; Edward Burne-Jones ; Gustave Moreau : between epic and dream ; Undressing the Victorians ; Pissarro's urbanities ; Renoir's portraits ; Mary Cassatt ; Matisse in Morocco ; Thomas Eakins in London ; Paul Klee ; Kazimir Malevich ; Alberto Giacometti ; Picasso as portraitist ; Fernand Leger ; Mark Rothko -- The Whitney biennial, 1997 ; Wrong turns at the Whitney ; Drunk on Andy Warhol ; Francis Bacon : another genius on parade ; Grotesque ; Robert Rauschenberg : today's golden dustman ; Gilbert and George : the psychopathology of culture ; Richard Diebenkorn ; Graham Nickson and the New York Studio School ; John Dubrow ; Odd nerdrum ; Tom Goldenberg : art without apology ; William Bailey : animating twilight