{"product_id":"brian-odoherty-9780520286559","title":"Brian ODoherty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"O’Doherty shifts between active participant and detached speculative mind with a fluidity and stylistic grace that propels you forward, even as it tugs at your sleeve and asks you to stop, reread, and give it more thought. O’Doherty wants us to inhabit what we perceive, to be an acute looker while fully engaging in the conundrums and contradictions that art puts to us. It is not an easy task, but it is one that he has managed admirably these many years.\"  * Art in America *\u003cbr\u003e\"O’Doherty is a gifted writer whose Irish-honed literary skills are placed at the service of New York’s cosmopolitan visual culture.\" * artcritical.com *\u003cbr\u003e\"The present volume of this polymath’s criticism is perhaps most notable for its collection of O’Doherty’s writings on Edward Hopper and Mark Rothko, two painters whom the writer befriended and knew well. It also contains his latest word on the “white cube” (he coined the now-ubiquitous phrase) from 2009, an update to his influential 1976 \u003ci\u003eInside the White Cube\u003c\/i\u003e, an early critique of institutional Modernism.\" * The New Criterion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Field Notes from the Crossroads, by Liam Kelly \/ vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A Ship’s Log of \/ to Modernism, by Anne-Marie Bonnet \/ 1\u003cbr\u003e On the Nature of Masquerade, by Brian O’Doherty \/ 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e HOPPER \/ ROTHKO\u003cbr\u003e Hopper’s Look \/ 13\u003cbr\u003e Word and Image: A Reciprocal Arrangement \/ 28\u003cbr\u003e Windows and Edward Hopper’s Gaze \/ 37\u003cbr\u003e Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning \/ 49\u003cbr\u003e Rothko’s Dark Paintings: Tragedy and Void \/ 55\u003cbr\u003e The Rothko Chapel \/ 72\u003cbr\u003e Rothko’s Endgame \/ 80\u003cbr\u003e Chamber Music in the Next Room \/ 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ART-LIKE\u003cbr\u003e The Politics and Aesthetics of Heart Transplants \/ 99\u003cbr\u003e The Microscopic Vision \/ 107\u003cbr\u003e Highway to Las Vegas \/ 114\u003cbr\u003e Las Vegas Revisited \/ 122\u003cbr\u003e Miami and the Iconography of the Pompadour Style \/ 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PHOTOGRAPHY \/ FILM \/ VIDEO\u003cbr\u003e Kane’s Welles: The Phantom of the Opus \/ 139\u003cbr\u003e Et in Arkadin Ego \/ 148\u003cbr\u003e Barzyk: Electronic Visionary \/ 158\u003cbr\u003e The Worlds of Nam June Paik \/ 168\u003cbr\u003e Hans Richter \/ 172\u003cbr\u003e FACEtime: Katharina Sieverding and (Maybe) Oscar Wilde \/ 184\u003cbr\u003e Narcissus in Hades \/ 190\u003cbr\u003e Development Errors: Michener’s Photographs \/ 193\u003cbr\u003e James Coleman: What Waiting Can Do, Given Time \/ 196\u003cbr\u003e Terrible Beauty: On Steve McQueen’s Hunger \/ 201\u003cbr\u003e Nigel Rolfe: Two Drums \/ 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e DISPATCHES FROM THE SIXTIES AND BEYOND\u003cbr\u003e Stella and Hesse: Dispatches from the Sixties \/ 211\u003cbr\u003e Segal’s Metropolis \/ 222\u003cbr\u003e Warhol: The Medium as Cultural Artifact \/ 233\u003cbr\u003e Taking Duchamp’s Portrait \/ 241\u003cbr\u003e Morton Feldman: The Burgacue Years \/ 250\u003cbr\u003e Divesting the Self: A Striptease \/ 263\u003cbr\u003e Rauschenberg \/ Counter-Rauschenberg \/ 274\u003cbr\u003e Wesley’s Hip-Pop \/ 281\u003cbr\u003e William Scharf: The Long and the Short Eye \/ 286\u003cbr\u003e Chamberlain: Projective Sculpture \/ 292\u003cbr\u003e Peter Hutchinson: A Green Thought in a Green Shade \/ 303\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Cornell: Innocence and Experience \/ 317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e WHITE CUBE \/ BLACK BOX\u003cbr\u003e Boxes, Cubes, Installations, Whiteness and Money \/ 327\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations \/ 333","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402877903191,"sku":"9780520286559","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520286559.jpg?v=1730481755","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/brian-odoherty-9780520286559","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}