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Naked Emperors. Criticisms of English Contemporary Art

Door Brian Sewell

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#245962
Titel
Naked Emperors. Criticisms of English Contemporary Art
Auteur
Sewell, Brian
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London, Quartet Books Limited
Jaar van uitgave
2012
ISBN10
0704372827
ISBN13
9780704372825
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

This selection of Brian Sewell's criticism from the London Evening Standard is his first collection to be published in nearly twenty years and has been selected from his art reviews of exhibitions by English contemporary artists. Most first appeared in the newspaper for whom he has written regularly since 1984. The reviews are gathered chronologically under artist or institution and discuss nearly every important contemporary English art exhibition for the past quarter of a century. Besides being a record of one man's developing response to the explosion of blockbuster contemporary art shows and multi-millionaire artist escapades of the past two decades, the reviews' sequence also reveal how much this often maligned critic did, at first, wish the new art establishment well. How he came t... (Lees verder)o see so much as dross or fiddle-faddle is written with such knowledge, style and humour, readers will also come to understand why mugs with 'Brian Sewell is Fab!' are still on sale in gallery gift shops.
Pagina's
359
Conditie
Goed — Name on endpaper.
Prijs
€ 10,00

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