Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art by Oppenheimer, Daniel
Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art by Oppenheimer, Daniel

Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art

Finalist, 2021 Writers' League of Texas Book Award Regarded as both a legend and a villain, the...
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Author: Daniel Oppenheimer
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Language: English
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Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art by Oppenheimer, Daniel

Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art

$75.34
Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art by Oppenheimer, Daniel

Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art

$75.34
Author: Daniel Oppenheimer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Finalist, 2021 Writers' League of Texas Book Award

Regarded as both a legend and a villain, the critic Dave Hickey has inspired generations of artists, art critics, musicians, and writers. His 1993 book The Invisible Dragon became a cult hit for its potent and provocative critique of the art establishment and its call to reconsider the role of beauty in art. His next book, 1997's Air Guitar, introduced a new kind of cultural criticism--simultaneously insightful, complicated, vulnerable, and down-to-earth--that propelled Hickey to fame as an iconoclastic thinker, loved and loathed in equal measure, whose influence extended beyond the art world.

Far from Respectable is a focused, evocative exploration of Hickey's work, his impact on the field of art criticism, and the man himself, from his Huck Finn childhood to his drug-fueled periods as both a New York gallerist and Nashville songwriter to, finally, his anointment as a tenured professor and MacArthur Fellow. Drawing on in-person interviews with Hickey, his friends and family, and art world comrades and critics, Daniel Oppenheimer examines the controversial writer's distinctive takes on a broad range of subjects, including Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, academia, Las Vegas, basketball, country music, and considers how Hickey and his vision of an "ethical, cosmopolitan paganism" built around a generous definition of art is more urgently needed than ever before.



Author: Daniel Oppenheimer
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 06/01/2021
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.00h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781477320150

About the Author
Daniel Oppenheimer is the author of Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century. He has written for the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Slate, Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, Guernica, and The New Republic, among others.
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