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Discovering the Present: Three Decades in Art, Culture, & Politics
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- GenresArt
348 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1985
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June 18, 2012
A mixed bag of art criticism, social theory, and random musings on culture, politics and society. His work on action painting holds up well, I think. He captures the thrill of self discovery in the Abstract Expressionists. The Herd of Independent Mind is as vociferous a diatribe against mass culture as Dwight MacDonald or Clement Greenberg ever penned. The last piece in the book, The Politics of Illusion, is a fascinating analysis of Marx's 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte in terms of theater and stagecraft, and anticipates Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle in important respects.
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