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BookHouse On-Line
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Pub. Date: 1993
Publisher: Art Issues Press/Foundation for
Price: $10.70
Seller: HPB-Movies, Dallas, TX, USA
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Condition: Very good

Pub. Date: 1993
Publisher: Art Issues Press/Foundation fo
Price: $40.70
Seller: Bonita, Newport Coast, CA, USA
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Condition: Good
Other Available Formats Seller Information Price The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (paperback)
Pub. Date: 1993
Publisher: Art Issues Press/Foundation fo
Condition: New
Bonita
Newport Coast, CA, USA$83.85 The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (First Edition) (Soft cover)
Pub. Date: 1993
Publisher: Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
Condition: Fine
Notes: Los Angeles, 1993. First edition. First printing. Wraps, stiff covers. Fine. A clean tight copy.
Dan Pope Books
WEST Hartford, CT, USA$77.00 The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (Trade Paperback)
Pub. Date: 1993
Publisher: Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
Description: Art
Condition: Very Good
Notes: A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. Previous owner's bookplate inside. 64 pages. Contents: Enter the Dragon, On the Vernacular of Beauty; Nothing Like the Son, On Robert Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio; Prom Night in Flatland, On the Gender of Works of Art; and After the Great Tsunami, On Beauty and the Therapeutic Institution.
Pistil Books Online
Seattle, WA, USA$77.75
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: 17973713100
- ISBN-13: 9780963726407
- Publisher: Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
- Date Published: 1993-12-02
- Seller: BookHouse On-Line
Condition: Very Good
Notes: Size: 6x0x9; Very good paperback from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy. Exterior shelfwear is very minor. Interior is free of previous owner markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.