The Invention of Art: A Cultural History By Larry Shiner. University of Chicago Press, 382 pages, $35.00 The Invisible Masterpiece By Hans Belting. Translated by Helen Atkins. University of Chicago Press, 480 pages, $45.00 How the mighty have fallen. From such soul-vaulting achievements as Michelangelo’s David, marble buttocks and glowering determination fit to shake the […]
Julie Ardery
Julie Ardery is the author of The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth Century Folk Art. A sociologist, art critic, and poet,
she lives in Austin, Texas.
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Art and Fellowship
Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Arts in America, by Michael Brenson. The New Press, 157 pages, $25.00. In the United States, we like our artists nobly bereft, taking literallyPercy Bysshe Shelley’s description of poets as “the unacknowledged legislators ofthe world.” When artists stoop to seek acknowledgment, the priestly […]
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The Enchantress
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent MillayBy Nancy Milford. Random House, 550 pages, $29.95 What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay By Daniel Mark Epstein. Henry Holt and Company, 300 pages, $25.00 The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay Edited and with an […]