Far From Respectable : : Dave Hickey and His Art / / Daniel Oppenheimer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2021
• VerfasserIn: Oppenheimer, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (141 p.) :; 25 b&w photos
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: His Blue Eden --; Far from Respectable, Even Now --; The Semi-Transcontinental Epiphany Tactic --; The Value of Beauty Remains Unjustified --; His Simple Heart --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Illustration Credits --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477323151; 9783110753783; 9783110754032; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110745276
• DOI: 10.7560/320150
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daniel Oppenheimer.

Regarded as both a legend and a villain, the critic Dave Hickey has inspired generations of artists, art critics, musicians, and writers. His 1993 book The Invisible Dragon became a cult hit for its potent and provocative critique of the art establishment and its call to reconsider the role of beauty in art. His next book, 1997’s Air Guitar, introduced a new kind of cultural criticism—simultaneously insightful, complicated, vulnerable, and down-to-earth—that propelled Hickey to fame as an iconoclastic thinker, loved and loathed in equal measure, whose influence extended beyond the art world. Far from Respectable is a focused, evocative exploration of Hickey’s work, his impact on the field of art criticism, and the man himself, from his Huck Finn childhood to his drug-fueled periods as both a New York gallerist and Nashville songwriter to, finally, his anointment as a tenured professor and MacArthur Fellow. Drawing on in-person interviews with Hickey, his friends and family, and art world comrades and critics, Daniel Oppenheimer examines the controversial writer’s distinctive takes on a broad range of subjects, including Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, academia, Las Vegas, basketball, country music, and considers how Hickey and his vision of an “ethical, cosmopolitan paganism” built around a generous definition of art is more urgently needed than ever before.