Invisible Dragon Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded

Name: Invisible Dragon Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded
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ISBN: 9780226333182

ISBN-10: 0226333183

ISBN-13: 9780226333182

Edition: 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Dave Hickey

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The Invisible Dragonmade a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beautyand savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging. With this revised and expanded edition, Hickey is back to fan the flames. More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to action than criticism,The Invisible Dragonaims squarely at the hyper-institutionalism that, in Hickey's view, denies the real pleasures that draw us to art in the first place. Deploying the artworks of Warhol, Raphael, Caravaggio, and…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 152
Size: 6.00" wide x 7.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Dave Hickey has written for most major American cultural publications. Formerly Executive Editor for Art in America, Hickey's publications include Prior Convictions (1989), The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993), and Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (1997). Hickey received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1994. He is currently Associate Professor of Art Criticism and Theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas 010.