The Painted Word

The Painted Word

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Read by: Harold N. Cropp

Language: English

Length: 2 hours and 6 minutes

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Release date: 2012-09-07

No one skewers the popular movements of American culture like Tom Wolfe. In 1975, he turned his satirical pen to the pretensions of the contemporary art world - a world of social climbing, elitist posturing, and ingeniously absurd self-justifying theorizing. From the fuliginous flatness of the 50s to the pop op minimal 60s, right on through the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t 70s, Tom Wolfe debunks the great American myth of modern art in an incandescent, hilarious, and devastating blast.