Jed Perl, Author . Simon & Schuster $35 (641p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4131-2
Perl, the art critic for the New Republic
, celebrates the heterogeneous achievements of the New York art world in this elegant, erudite work that sweeps gracefully from the 1940s, when the city was "the
place of dazzling contradictions,"...
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Jed Perl, Author . Knopf $25 (207p) ISBN 978-0-307-26662-0
The 18th-century rococo artist Jean-Antoine Watteau is art critic Perl's favorite painter, one who transforms “powerful feelings—of love, friendship, lust, avidity, curiosity—into delectable artistic play” and “poet
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Jed Perl, Author Basic Books $35 (368p) ISBN 978-0-465-05520-3
For the six years veteran journalist Perl (Paris Without End; Gallery Going) has been the art critic for the New Republic, he has consistently argued for struggling artists in their studios and against some of the best-known art stars of the last 20
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Jed Perl, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $24.95 (431p) ISBN 978-0-15-134260-0
Perl's straight-talking art criticism can be devastating, as when he observes that Jasper Johns's painting cycle The Seasons is ``unable to evoke four (or even two) different moods.'' Among the helium reputations he punctures are those of Andy...
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Jed Perl. Knopf, $50 (704p) ISBN 978-0-307-27272-0
Perl (New Art City) delivers a hulking and exhaustively researched biography of American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898–1976), focusing on the first four decades of his life. Calder was born in Philadelphia into a dynasty of artists (his father and
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Jed Perl. Knopf, $60 (688p) ISBN 978-0-451-49411-5
Art critic Perl (Calder: The Conquest of Time) completes his magisterial biography of sculptor Alexander Calder (1898–1976) with this lavishly illustrated volume, revealing Calder’s transformation from playful American master to international figure.
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Jed Perl. Knopf, $20 (176p) ISBN 978-0-593-32005-1
“The singularity of an artistic endeavor—the way the individual works out the dynamic between authority and freedom... is everybody’s history,” writes art critic Perl (Paris Without End) in this passionate and cerebral work. Aiming to unpack the...
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