Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics in the Twilight of the Millennium

by David Levi Strauss

Cultural Criticism. In his first collection of essays, David Levi Strauss addresses the always conflicted relation between aesthetics and politics by concentrating on specific instances -- from allopathic art to Desert Storm propaganda, from Columbus's legacy to Robert Smithson's prophesies, and from new art in post-Soviet Russia to public art in the United States -- by focusing on the work of artists as various as Grunewald, Jean Genet, Cindy Sherman, Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville, Carolee Schneemann, Andrei Monastyrsky, and Daniel Joseph Martinez.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Essays

144 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 1999

Reviews

[Conor · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was not what I expected it to be. It should be noted that I tend to have a low opinion of essays on Art. DLS however writes really clear, well addressed essays. I'll admit that I don't know enough about most of the artists that he talks about to really have a solid review; but at no point is he the kind of essay writer that I hate; bitter or full of cliches. The main thing is that in reading this as an outsider of the art theory world, I felt more interested than pushed away. Not pretentious then, helpful.