Main entry:

Perl, Jed.

Title & Author:

Eyewitness : reports from an art world in crisis / Jed Perl.

Publication:

New York : Basic Books, ©2000.

Description:

vi, 349 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"A New Republic book."
Includes index.
Twombly time: Cy Twombly & painterly painting -- Shrieks: Bruce Nauman -- Solitary in the city of art: Balthus & R.B. Kitaj -- War stories: the 1995 Whitney Biennial -- London grit: Leon Kossoff -- Born under Saturn: Bill Jensen -- The third degree: Brancusi & recent sculpture -- An unknown masterpiece: Jean Helion -- Abstract matters: Joan Snyder & abstract painting -- American real: Louisa Matthiasdottir & contemporary realism -- Flag burning: Jasper Johns -- The age of recovery: Nan Goldin & art in New York.
Impersonal enchantment: Jeff Wall -- Earth: Temma Bell & landscape painting -- A pageant: Trevor Winkfield -- Death and realism: Chuck Close & Gabriel Laderman -- Formal Africa: "Africa, the Art of a Continent" at the Guggenheim -- Painting is a woman: Corot -- A serpent, a smile, a prayer: ancient Cambodian art -- Latest and greatest: Braque's late work -- Setting the stage: painters & the Ballets Russes -- Acropolis now: the Getty Center in Los Angeles -- Bring in the amateurs: impressionist exhibitions -- Being geniuses together: Calder, Leger & Aalto.

Summary:

"New Republic art critic Jed Perl brings to this collection of twenty-six essays his uncompromising critical engagement with the contemporary art world. Perl presents bold, almost novelistic explorations of contemporary artists - including Balthus, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman and Joan Snyder - within the broader context of a lively discussion of museum and gallery goings-on."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0465055206
9780465055203

Subject:

Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau
Kunstmarkt
Art, Modern 20th century.
Art.
Art 20e siècle.
Art, Modern
Kunst
Kunsthandel
Kunstkritik
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Art.
Essay
Aufsatzsammlung.
essays.
works of art.
Essays
Essais.
Œuvres d'art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215986
Call No.: N6490 .P4 2000
Status: Available