The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings 1985-2003

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Cultural Writing. Essays on art. THE SWEET SINGER OF MODERNISM spans nearly twenty years of poet critic and professor Bill Berksons career as an art writer. The essays in this volume include "Thiebauds Vanities " "Invocations of the Surge Protector " "Hung Liu Action Painter " "What the Ground Looks Like" and many more. "Bill Berksons THE SWEET SINGER OF MODERNISM is an indispensable text for anyone interested in late-twentieth-century culture. As a poet and critic of these times as a witness and intimate participant Berkson writes out of his own taste and experience but never about it. His devotion to the seriousness and importance of his subjects is the very essence of modesty and felicity. As a consequence his most casual opinion bears the weight of thoughtful moral authority. This is a wonderful book"--Dave Hickey.