Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780465055203)

As art critic for The New Republic, Jed Perl is renowned for combining a passion for art and a skepticism about the current art establishment with an ability to write about art in the context of our larger culture. In this collection of essays, including two written especially for this book, he delivers a brilliant mixture of first-rate art criticism and politically informed insight into the true workings of the American art world. Perl offers incisive analysis into the marketing mentality that dominates today's museums, the poverty of academic criticism, and the changing expectations of the gallery-going public. He re-evaluates the old masters, and turns an avid, unprejudiced eye on the works of his contemporaries. He laments the collapse of a gallery culture that once allowed artists to develop slowly, and argues for a radical reassessment of the way art is presented to -- and is viewed by -- the public.

Author: Jed Perl
ISBN-10: 0465055206
ISBN-13: 9780465055203
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 02/18/2000
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.55h x 6.46w x 1.11d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/21/2000 pg. 79
School Library Journal 03/01/2000 pg. 80
New York Times 05/21/2000 pg. 28
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 162