Eyewitness: Reports From An Art World In Crisis (Hardcover)

As art critic for "The New Republic," Jed Perl is renowned for combining a passion for art and a skepticism about the current art establishment with an ability to write about art in the context of our larger culture. In this collection of essays, including two written especially for this book, he delivers a brilliant mixture of first-rate art criticism and politically informed insight into the true workings of the American art world.Perl offers incisive analysis into the marketing mentality that dominates today's museums, the poverty of academic criticism, and the changing expectations of the gallery-going public. He re-evaluates the old masters, and turns an avid, unprejudiced eye on the works of his contemporaries. He laments the collapse of a gallery culture that once allowed artists to develop slowly, and argues for a radical reassessment of the way art is presented to--and is viewed by--the public.

General

Imprint:	BasicBooks
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2000
First published:	February 2000
Authors:	Jed Perl
Dimensions:	162 x 236 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-465-05520-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-465-05520-6
Barcode:	9780465055203

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