Far From Respectable : : Dave Hickey and His Art / / Daniel Oppenheimer.
Finalist, 2021 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award 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 establi...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (141 p.) :; 25 b&w photos |
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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 |
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Summary: | Finalist, 2021 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award 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. |
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. |