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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Dave Hickey |
ISBN: | 9781280994456 1280994452 9780226333199 0226333191 |
OCLC Number: | 820120908 |
Notes: | Originally published: Los Angeles : Art Issues Press, 1993. ; This ed. previously pub. in print, 2009. |
Description: | 1 volume : illustrations |
Contents: | Dragon days: introduction to the new edition -- Enter the dragon: on the vernacular of beauty -- Nothing like the son: on Robert Mapplethorpe's X portfolio -- Prom night in flatland: on the gender of works of art -- After the great tsunami: on beauty and the therapeutic institution -- American beauty. |
Responsibility: | Dave Hickey. |
Abstract:
More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to action than criticism, this book aims squarely at the hyper-institutionalism that, in the author's view, denies the real pleasures that draw us to art in the first place.
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"Dave Hickey's writing is exhilarating and deeply engaging. At its best, Dragon is both a time capsule of a period when dirty pictures could dismantle institutions and a provocation to reignite the conversation about the purpose of art." (Newsweek)" Read more...

