Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity

by Roger Kimball

Book Overview

Observing our contemporary culture, the distinguished critic Roger Kimball sees that the avant-garde assault on tradition has long since degenerated into a sclerotic orthodoxy. He finds that the "cutting edge," as defined by the established tastemakers, turns out time and again to be a stale remainder of past impotence. And he locates a pretense that the traditional is the enemy rather than a springboard to originality. In Art's Prospect, Mr...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566635098
• ISBN13: 9781566635097
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.5"