Visual Shock
Auteur: Michael Kammen
Nombre de pages: 480 pages
ISBN: 0307548775, 9780307548771
Edition: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date de publication: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Description: In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when first exhibited) to the bitter disputes about Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Memorial, this is an eye-opening account of American art and the battles and controversies that it has ignited.