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John Seed is a professor of art and art history at Mt. San Jacinto College in Southern California. Seed has written about art and artists for Arts of Asia, Art Ltd., Catamaran, Harvard Magazine, International Artist, The HuffingtonPost, Hyperallergic.com and Poets and Artists.

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	Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World by John Seed (Goodreads Author), Katherine Stanek (Foreword) 4.43 avg rating — 90 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Art World: Recollections and Other Writings 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux (A Contemporary Art Book with 300 Modern Realism Works and Q&A Insights from 43 Global Realist Artists, Essay on Jenny Saville, & More) by John Seed (Goodreads Author), Nicholas Wilton (Foreword) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Rather Eccentric Essays on Art: Reflections on Damien Hirst, postmodernism, the art market, food in art and more... 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Artist's Statements of the Old Masters 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	F. Scott Hess by John Seed (Goodreads Author), Doug Harvey, Leah Ollman 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture of Capital: Art, Power, and the Nineteenth Century Middle Class it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patricia Chidlaw: Empire of Light by John Seed (Goodreads Author), Jeremy Tessmer it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cultural Revolution? by John Seed (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dr Bart Moore-Gilbert (Editor), John Seed (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recollections from the Los Angeles Art World, 1983-85: Jean Michel Basquiat, Larry Gagosian, The Museum of Contemporary Art 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you are an artist who pays too much attention this system and its politics, you are in deep trouble because you have become a follower.”
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