Bamboo by William Boyd

Author:William Boyd [Boyd, William]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2011-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

pumped by its own fetishism, by billionaires competing in the auction room like mountain goats clashing horns over possession of a crag or a mate.

What has made his criticism so trenchant over the last four decades is that it has always been based on sound and immovable principles: namely a firm belief that the bedrock of all serious art is technical prowess, a graphic literacy. Only that virtuosity coupled with “the long tussle with the real motif” justifies the experimentation and horizon-expanding efforts of modernist art. Without this we are left with “imps and goblins,” their whimsical games and silly, talentless daubings: “the sleep of reason” duly producing its monsters.

1997

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