Art is life : icons & iconoclasts, visionaries & vigilantes, & flashes of hope in the night
Book |
Riverhead Books,
New York :
2022.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimsby | 701.03 Sal | Non-fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
In Art Is Life, Jerry Saltz draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times. Chronicling a period punctuated by dramatic turning points—from the cultural reset of 9/11 to the rolling social crises of today—Saltz traces how visionary artists have both documented and challenged the culture. Art Is Life offers Saltz’s eye-opening appraisals of trailblazers like Kara Walker, David Wojnarowicz, Hilma af Klint, and Jasper Johns; provocateurs like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, and Marina Abramović; and visionaries like Jackson Pollock, Bill Traylor, and Willem de Kooning. Saltz celebrates landmarks like the Obama portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, writes searchingly about disturbing moments such as the Ankara gallery assassination, and offers surprising takes on figures from Thomas Kinkade to Kim Kardashian. And he shares stories of his own haunted childhood, his time as a “failed artist,” and his epiphanies upon beholding work by Botticelli, Delacroix, and the cave painters of Niaux.
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Details
- ISBN: 9780593086490
- Physical Description: 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmprint
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2022.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes index.
- Formatted Contents Note: The World Before and During: 1999-2001 -- What Different Looked Like: 2001-2008 -- Toward a Reckoning: 2009-2016 -- The Long American Night: 2016-2021.