Description
Book SynopsisA collection of the essays of art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl, which explores his thoughts on individual contemporary artists, their work, events and ethics in the art world and new, creative directions.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Robert Storr
The Hydrogen Jukebox: Terror, Narcissism, and Art
Rothko and Belief
Edvard Munch: The Missing Master
I Missed Punk
A Book by Larry Rivers
Warhol and Class Content
Dubuffet, 1980
First Voice Column
Clement Greenberg
Exxon Exhibition at the Guggenheim
Julian Schnabel and Susan Rothenberg
Arshile Gorky
L.A. Demystified! Art and Life in the Eternal Present
Affairs of the Heat
Disney Animators
Realism Again
H. C. Westermann
Only Connect: Bruce Nauman
"Les Drippings" in Paris: The Jackson Pollock Retrospective
Cindy Sherman
David Salle
Why New French Art Is Lousy
Willem de Kooning
Robert Smithson's Writings
Documenta 7
Howard Finster
Clemente to Marden to Kiefer
Leon Golub
Decade of Wonders
The Grant Wood Revival
On Art and Artists: Peter Schjeldahl
Edouard Manet
Balthus
In Defense of Artistic Fashion
Minimalism
Philip Guston
Eric Fischl
Ed Ruscha: Traffic and Laughter
To Pico
The Daemon and Sigmar Polke
Adrian Saxe and the Smart Pot
The Immigrant Strain
Welcome to Helgaland
A Visit to the Salon of Autumn 1986
Our Kiefer
Hopperesque
Mike Kelley
Paintings by Aborigines
Jeff Koons
Courbet
De K.ooning Alone
Treason of Clerks
Velazquez
Baselitz and Kippenberger
Bibliography of Peter Schjeldahl's Writings on Art
Index
