The Painted Word
book by Wolfe
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art criticism
- In art criticism: Other Criteria: Rosenberg and Alloway
In The Painted Word (1975), American author Tom Wolfe writes about the power of Greenberg and Rosenberg. Wolfe argues that they did not simply make a case for a certain reading of modern art, but their influence was such that contemporary painters obediently submitted to their…
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discussed in biography
- In Tom Wolfe
…Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970), The Painted Word (1975), From Bauhaus to Our House (1981), and The Worship of Art: Notes on the New God (1984). The Right Stuff (1979; film 1983), which examines aspects of the first U.S. astronaut program, earned critical praise and was a best seller.
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