Eyewitness: Reports From An Art World In Crisis

Hardback

Main Details

Title Eyewitness: Reports From An Art World In Crisis
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jed Perl
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 162,Width 236
Category/GenreTheory of art
Art and design styles - from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780465055203
ClassificationsDewey:700.922
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Basic Books
Imprint Basic Books
Publication Date 1 March 2000
Publication Country United States

Description

A provocative look at the contemporary art scene by one of the countrys leading art critics.. As art critic for The New Republic , Jed Perl is renowned for combining a passion for art and a skepticism about the current art establishment with an ability to write about art in the context of our larger culture. In this collection of essays, including two written especially for this book, he delivers a brilliant mixture of first-rate art criticism and politically informed insight into the true workings of the American art world.Perl offers incisive analysis into the marketing mentality that dominates todays museums, the poverty of academic criticism, and the changing expectations of the gallery-going public. He re-evaluates the old masters, and turns an avid, unprejudiced eye on the works of his contemporaries. He laments the collapse of a gallery culture that once allowed artists to develop slowly, and argues for a radical reassessment of the way art is presented toand is viewed bythe public.

Author Biography

Jed Perl is art critic of The New Republic. He has been a contributing editor of Vogue, a columnist for Salma-gundi, and a regular contributor to The New Criterion. Widely respected as an independent voice on art and culture, he has also written for Partisan Review and The New York Times Book Review and appeared on CNN, NPR, and 147The McNeill/Lehrer Report.148 He lives in New York City.