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Art's Prospect
Roger Kimball
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Description for Art's Prospect
Hardback. With reviews and essays composed over the last 20 years and revised for this book, "Art's Prospects" illuminates some of the chief spiritual itineraries of modern art, and argues that the traditional is the enemy, rather than a springboard to originality. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
Observing our contemporary culture, the distinguished critic Roger Kimball sees that the avant-garde assault on tradition has long since degenerated into a sclerotic orthodoxy. He finds that the "cutting edge," as defined by the established tastemakers, turns out time and again to be a stale remainder of past impotence. And he locates a pretense that the traditional is the enemy rather than a springboard to originality. 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 ... Read more
Observing our contemporary culture, the distinguished critic Roger Kimball sees that the avant-garde assault on tradition has long since degenerated into a sclerotic orthodoxy. He finds that the "cutting edge," as defined by the established tastemakers, turns out time and again to be a stale remainder of past impotence. And he locates a pretense that the traditional is the enemy rather than a springboard to originality. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566635097
SKU
V9781566635097
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About Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator. His other books include Lives of the Mind, Experiments Against Reality, The Long March, and Tenured Radicals. He lives in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
Reviews for Art's Prospect
Kimball knows his business.... His reviews make me hungry to see what I've missed.
The Weekly Standard
One of the ablest and most philosophically skilled critics on the current scene.
Frederick Morgan A trenchant and courageous critic...his positive values and his historical grasp make him far more than a mere polemicist.
John Gross One of the ... Read more
The Weekly Standard
One of the ablest and most philosophically skilled critics on the current scene.
Frederick Morgan A trenchant and courageous critic...his positive values and his historical grasp make him far more than a mere polemicist.
John Gross One of the ... Read more