Eric Fischl: 1970-2007
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Eric Fischl: 1970-2007 Details
About the Author Arthur C. Danto is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University and art critic for The Nation. He is the author of more than fifteen books, including Narration and Knowledge, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, After the End of Art, The Abuse of Beauty, and most recently Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life. Robert Enright is the senior contributing editor to Border Crossings magazine and the University Research Chair in Art Criticism at the University of Guelph. He has published a collection of interviews with contemporary artists in Peregrinations and has contributed essays to museum catalogs and other publications. In 2005, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.Steve Martin is the famed American actor and writer. He is the author of Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Places, the novellas Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and the memoir Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life. He is also a frequent contributor to The New Yorker. Read more
Reviews
Although in the USA in a new period of Victorian prudishness and prissiness wafting its way accross its captive audience it's not to difficult to be controversial. So a very gifted artist like Eric Fischl has achieved underground status without having allot of competition.His frank casual and candid insights on canvas of the behaviors and routine freedoms enjoyed by what is now a battered and bruised suburban middle class.The key ingredientsthat appear to arourse the wrath of the neo Victorians is nudity of course which on the mainland of Europe the brilliance of his artistic sensibilities would be more prominent. ..This book is a must have and an excellent retrospective on the different subject matter that attracted his attention