Yale-University-Press
Quibbles aside, this book’s profusion of illustrations is a windfall for artists, art students, and those keen on close looking and visual culture.
I wish this catalogue spelled out John Singer Sargent’s professional stance as a “juste milieu” painter more methodically. That term refers to those eager to be associated with new stylistic tendencies yet careful not to transgress the establishment’s norms.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Can Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux lend literary dignity to a big-box store?
Because Mindy Aloff is so deeply personal and idiosyncratic — and so dependent on what was programmed by certain theaters, in certain years — her book distorts the very topic it is intended to illuminate.
At points Greil Marcus’ digressive style can seem like nervy brilliance, at others, idle whimsy. What ennobles the book is the critic’s love for his underlying subject: the soulful search for a truer America.
What we have here is the voice of one trying to navigate, endure, rise above, and somehow pacify a tapestry of cruelty and grief, while it struggles to find the words and voice that will do the work.
David Thomson’s meditation on our love of disasters is engagingly allusive, reflective, humane, wide-ranging, and often funny.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Book Reviews: Chronicles of Russia’s War on Ukraine — Hope Is the Thing with Teeth
Two powerufl volumes show that Ukraine’s greatest weapons against Russia are hope and unity.
Read More about Book Reviews: Chronicles of Russia’s War on Ukraine — Hope Is the Thing with Teeth