Writings about art / [edited by] Carole Gold Calo.
| Other author | Calo, Carole Gold. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©1994. |
| Description | viii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Images of gods / Albert Elsen -- The sacred mountain in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Aegean / Vincent Scully -- The interpretation of the second commandment / Avram Kampf -- Northern romanticism and the resurrection of God and transcendental abstraction / Robert Rosenblum -- The mechanics of seventeenth-century patronage / Francis Haskell -- A matter of taste : the monumental and exotic in the Qianlong reign / Harold Kahn -- Katherine Dreir : art patron with a social vision / Carole Gold Calo -- The structure of the SoHo art market / Charles H. Simpson -- Art and freedom in quattrocento Italy / Frederick Hartt -- The disasters of war / Fred S. Licht -- The birth of socialist realism from the spirit of the avant-garde / Boris Groys -- Can political passion inspire great art? / Michael Brenson -- The mother and child in African sculpture / Herbert Cole -- The end of the century : conflicting fantasies of feminity / Susan P. Casteras -- Why have there been no great women artists? / Linda Nochlin -- How wide is the gender gap? / Eleanor Heartney -- Race and representation / Guy McElroy -- Inventing the "the Indian" / Julie Schimmel -- And/or : Hispanic art, American culture / John Beardsley -- Naming / Lucy Lippard -- The public realm / Spiro Kostoff -- The malignant object : thoughts on public sculpture / Douglas Stalker and Clark Glymour -- The commissioning of a work of public sculpture / Judith Balfe and Margaret Wyszomirski -- Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Nicholas Capasso -- The senses and censorship / David Freedberg -- The obscenity trial : how they voted to acquit / Robin Cembalist -- Is art above the laws of decency? / Hilton Kramer -- The NEA : a misunderstood patron / Elaine King. |
| General note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 92047106 |
| ISBN | 0137617011 : |