Culture or Trash?: A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Other Costly Commodities
by Gardner, James
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1559722088
- ISBN 13
- 9781559722087
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About This Item
Secaucus, NJ: Birch Lane Press; Carol Publishing Group, 1993. vii, 227 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. Right-wing reactionary polemic against contemporary art. "Gardner, the art critic for National Review, examines the graffiti art of New York's East Village, performance art, 'outsider art' (works by murders and the mentally ill), and how the contemporary art market works." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The age of art; The art world; The chattering class; Modernists and postmodernists; High and low; The reborn figure; The remains of abstraction; The radical in the studio; The art of the body; Art art.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 091218
- Title
- Culture or Trash?: A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Other Costly Commodities
- Author
- Gardner, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1559722088
- ISBN 13
- 9781559722087
- Publisher
- Birch Lane Press; Carol Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- Secaucus, NJ
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999; Aesthetics;
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