Placeholder text

Go to cart

Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis

By Jed Perl

Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis

By Jed Perl

- Default Title
Description
As art critic for The New Republic , Jed Perl is renowned for combining a passion for art and a skepticism about the current art establishment with an ability to write about art in the context of our larger culture. In this collection of essays, including two written especially for this book, he delivers a brilliant mixture of first-rate art criticism and politically informed insight into the true workings of the American art world.Perl offers incisive analysis into the marketing mentality that dominates today's museums, the poverty of academic criticism, and the changing expectations of the gallery-going public. He re-evaluates the old masters, and turns an avid, unprejudiced eye on the works of his contemporaries. He laments the collapse of a gallery culture that once allowed artists to develop slowly, and argues for a radical reassessment of the way art is presented to,and is viewed by,the public.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2000-02-18
Publication Date:
2000-02-18
Publisher:
Basic Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0465055206
ISBN13:
9780465055203
Weight:
680 g
Height:
164 cm
Width:
243 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out