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The Invisible Dragon : Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded
by Hickey, Dave
 
Soft cover
$36.38

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The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and ExpandedThe Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded (Trade paperback)
Pub. Date: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Price: $8.43
Seller: Goodwill of Colorado, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, USA
Notes: This item is in overall good condition. Covers and dust jackets are intact but may have minor wear including slight curls or bends to corners as well as cosmetic blemishes including stickers. Pages are intact but may have minor highlighting/ writing. Binding is intact; however, spine may have slight wear overall. Digital codes may not be included and have not been tested to be redeemable and/or active. Minor shelf wear overall. Please note that all items are donated goods and are in used condition. Orders shipped Monday through Friday! Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Orders shipped Monday through Friday. Your purchase helps put people to work and learn life skills to reach their full potential. Thank you!
The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and ExpandedThe Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded (Trade paperback)
Pub. Date: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Price: $8.43
Seller: Seattle Goodwill, Seattle, WA, USA
Description: May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle area. Thank you for supporting Goodwill's nonprofit mission!
 
 
 
 

More About The Invisible Dragon by Hickey, Dave
 
 
 
Overview

The Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty--and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging.

With this revised and expanded edition, Hickey is back to fan the flames. More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to action than criticism, The Invisible Dragon aims squarely at the hyper-institutionalism that, in Hickey's view, denies the real pleasures that draw us to art in the first place. Deploying the artworks of Warhol, Raphael, Caravaggio, and Mapplethorpe and the writings of Ruskin, Shakespeare, Deleuze, and Foucault, Hickey takes on museum culture, arid academicism, sclerotic politics, and more--all in the service of making readers rethink the nature of art. A new introduction provides a context for earlier essays--what Hickey calls his "intellectual temper tantrums." A new essay, "American Beauty," concludes the volume with a historical argument that is a rousing paean to the inherently democratic nature of attention to beauty.

Written with a verve that is all too rare in serious criticism, this expanded and refurbished edition of The Invisible Dragon will be sure to captivate a new generation of readers, provoking the passionate reactions that are the hallmark of great criticism.


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  • PID: 17459138583
  • ISBN-13: 9780226333199
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Seller: Seagull Bookshop
    Condition: Very Good
    Notes: Size: 6x1x7; Has some light general reading/shelfwear-otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK.