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The Painted Word is a 1975 book of art criticism by Tom Wolfe. Background [ edit ] By the 1970s Wolfe was, according to Douglas Davis of Newsweek magazine "more of a celebrity than the celebrities he describes."
Oct 14, 2008 · by Tom Wolfe (Author) 4.4 714 ratings. See all formats and editions. "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen.
Jan 1, 2001 · The Painted Word follows American art through the dominant movements from 1945 until 1975: Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Op Art, Color Field Painting, and Post-Painterly Abstraction, to the beginnings of Earth Art.
Artists pitched in to help make theory. They loved it, in fact. Georges Braque, the painter for whose work the word Cubism was coined, was a great formulator of precepts: “The painter thinks in forms and colors. The aim is not to reconstitute an anecdotal fact but to constitute a pictorial fact.”.
Jan 27, 2017 · Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Tom Wolfe and The Painted Word. Episode S0191, Recorded on July 9, 1975 Guest: Tom Wolfe For more information about this program, see: http ...
The Painted Word. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. Summary from Publisher: The Painted Word charts the erratic course of the social history of Modern Art from its beginnings in revolution–a revolution against literary content in art–to its present state, in which it has become, quite unconsciously, a parody of itself, obsessedly ...
Sep 26, 2011 · The painted word. by. Wolfe, Tom. Publication date. 1976. Topics. Painting, Modern, Painting. Publisher. New York ; Toronto : Bantam Books.
