15 results for 'hickei'

A collection of essays by American art critic Dave Hickey, nicknamed “The Bad Boy of Art Criticism.”When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer’s dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things...

An expanded edition of Hickey's controversial and exquisitely written apologia for beauty--championed by artists, reviled by art critics, and as powerful as ever 30 years on"If this book of shocking...

The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs,...

Based on the most recent local research, this revisionist work surveys the history of workers in the heartland of German industry before World War I and reassesses the origins, development, and...

Hickey, Dave, Park, Kyong, Miller, John, Bunschoten, Raoul, Olalquiaga, Celeste, Allen, Stan

The catalogue for the largest exhibition in the US of this aspect of Sol Lewitt's work. Essay by Dave Hickey. 96 pages; 51 full-page color and b&w plates; 11 x 10.25 inches. Checklist.

""Good Looking" constitutes an important and permanent contribution to the growing critique of text-driven post-structuralist critical practice as an efficacious tool for talking about visible and...

The most comprehensive portrait of art criticism ever assembled, as told by the leading writers of our time.In the last fifty years, art criticism has flourished as never before. Moving from niche to...

This striking book explains the feats of engineering behind the world's most impressive architectural marvels.One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Children's Books of 2022Featured on the Children's...

Seahorses is a groundbreaking anthology that shares the experiences of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people who have navigated pregnancy. What can trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive...

A richly illustrated account tracing the full arc of contemporary painter Suzanne Jackson’s life and multifaceted artistic visionFirst and foremost a painter, Suzanne Jackson has worked for six...

Mystical and everyday reveries from the visionary American modernist In the early years of the 20th century, Charles Burchfield painted mystic and visionary landscapes, and with some of his...

Now that we ‘curate’ even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture?‘Curate’ is now a buzzword, applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside...

"Everything and nothing is sacred in Rebecca Brown's essays. Tongue, word, thought, and intellect all conspire in a free language love of living history, divination, sex, solitude and amusement. She...

The third and final volume of the first complete collection of Eugene O’Neill’s dramatic writings (available exclusively from The Library of America) contains eight plays written between 1932 and...