First edition. Inscribed by Berkson on title page. Light shelf-wear, but otherwise great condition. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

For the Ordinary Artist

Publisher

BlazeVOX [books], Buffalo

Publication Date

2010

Language

English

ISBN 10

1609640055

ISBN 13

9781609640057

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near fine

Dust Jacket Condition

No jacket

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

"Opinions are not literature" Gertrude Stein famously admonished Ernest Hemingway. It's a maxim that puts most art critics behind the Eight-Ball. Not Bill Berkson. His criticism doesn't just deliver an opinion, it embodies an experience, matching the texture and plasticity of visual forms with a vividness and suppleness of language that gives the reader something shapely and immediate to respond to thereby opening path ways in the mind to the image or object being evoked and judged. His subject is art; his essays and critical prose poems are uncommonly graceful literary artifacts. —Robert Storr

About the Author

Born in New York, Bill Berkson is a poet, art critic, and teacher. Formerly a professor of liberal arts at the San Francisco Art Institute, he lives in San Francisco and New York.

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