The Painted Word

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Shockingly Gripping - By: , 21 Nov 2003
I picked up this book as I had nothing left to read. I picked it up & with trepidation began absorbing the first few words & when I looked up again realised that I was thoroughly absorbed & was half way through his diatribe. Tom Wolfe is just plain & simple a masterful writer with intelligence. He speaks of his epiphany (if you will) of when he read an article & it basicallly summed up that art is not art unless you believe in the theory in it's meaning & thus you see through this to the art. All very pompous reallly - gone are the days of art being just a painting - no, it's alll mish mashed & made literary. And so begins his book, on how modern art became thus & on the le monde & the people behind stating the current frame of mind, the people being the artist the critics the le monde set - not you or I or the average joe - we are told, we are not a part of selecting. He manages to show the hypocrisy of some artists of their bohemian flare, their lament in their work but as fame catapults them then so they take to the bourgeious state of being so easily that they were anti - that where their art came from.
It's thoroughly enjoyable, easy to read & basicallly shockingly gripping.

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