A Brief History Of The Artist From God To Picasso
by:
Paul Barolsky (author)
In A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso, Paul Barolsky explores the ways in which fiction shapes history and history informs fiction. It is a playful book about artistic obsession, about art history as both tragedy and farce, and about the heroic and the mock-heroic. The book...
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In A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso, Paul Barolsky explores the ways in which fiction shapes history and history informs fiction. It is a playful book about artistic obsession, about art history as both tragedy and farce, and about the heroic and the mock-heroic. The book demonstrates that the modern idea of the artist has deep roots in the image of the ep
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780271036755 (0271036753)
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Pages no: 168
Edition language: English