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    The Invisible Dragon
    The Invisible Dragon
    Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded
    The Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging. With this revised and expanded edition, Hickey is back to fan the flames. More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to action than criticism, The Invisible Dragon aims squarely at the hyper - institutionalism that, in Hickey's view, denies the real pleasures that draw us to art in the first place. Deploying the artworks of Warhol, Raphael, Caravaggio and Mapplethorpe and the writings of Ruskin, Shakespeare, Deleuze and Foucault, Hickey takes on museum culture, arid academicism, sclerotic politics, and more and all in the service of making readers rethink the nature of art. A new introduction provides a context for earlier essays, what Hickey calls his intellectual temper tantrums. A new essay, ''American Beauty'' concludes the volume with a historical argument that is a rousing paean to the inherently democratic nature of attention to beauty. Written with a verve that is all too rare in serious criticism, this expanded and refurbished edition of The Invisible Dragon will be sure to captivate a new generation of readers, provoking the passionate reactions that are the hallmark of great criticism.
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    Book Author
    Dave Hickey
    Genre Philosophy
    Binding
    PERFECT BINDING (PAPERBACK)
    Format
    Large Print 16 Pt Edition (Standard Large Print)
    ISBN
    9781459658400
    Publisher
    University of Chicago Press
    Age Range
    General
    Approximate delivery

    UP TO 30 DAYS (?)

    Publication Date
    08-Feb-2013

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