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by Tom Wolfe

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From the publisher

"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).

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  • Title The Painted Word
  • Author Tom Wolfe
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1 Edition
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Picador USA, New York, New York
  • Publication date 2008-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9780312427580 / 0312427581
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 5.52 x 0.31 in (20.93 x 14.02 x 0.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Painting, Modern - 20th century, Painting - Psychological aspects
  • Dewey Decimal Code 759.06

About the author

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, Wolfe was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the 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.

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