| The Painted Word Contributor(s): Wolfe, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312427581 ISBN-13: 9780312427580 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: Wolfe debunks the great American myth of modern art from the Fifties to the Seventies, in an incandescent, hilarious, and devastating blast. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Psychology - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| Dewey: 759.06 |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.52" W x 8.24" (0.25 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: America's nerviest journalist (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this masterpiece (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. The Painted Word is Tom Wolfe at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent (San Francisco Chronicle). |
Contributor Bio(s): Wolfe, Tom: - Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine, and is credited with coining the term, "The Me Decade." Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City. |