The Painted Word
Tom Wolfe, Tom
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Add to basketSold by Ocean Tango Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since November 20, 1998
Condition: Very Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketsigned on half title page. as pictured First edition Very good condition hard cover, board edges sunned 1/8 inch to edges, dust spots to top edge of oatmeal spine edge , a very nice dust jacket, tiny closed tear gently read clean pages.
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The other bone Wolfe has to pick is with the proliferation of art theory, particularly the sort purveyed by postwar colossi like Harold Rosenberg, Clement Greenberg, and Leo Steinberg. Decades after the heyday of abstract expressionism, these guys make pretty easy targets. What could be more absurd, after all, than endless Jesuitical disputes about the flatness of the picture plane? So most of them get a highly comical spanking from the author. It's worth pointing out, of course, that Wolfe paints with a broad (as it were) brush. If he's skewering the entire army of artistic pretenders in a single go, there's no room to admit that Jasper Johns or Willem DeKooning might actually have some talent. But as he would no doubt admit, The Painted Word isn't about the history of art. It's about the history of taste and middlebrow acquisition--and nobody has chronicled these two topics as hilariously or accurately as Tom Wolfe. --James Marcus
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