Confessions of a (Six-) Figure Painter

For those who haven't followed particularly closely the dramatis personae in the art world's metamorphosis from, at the end of the 1970's, a late-stage academic dole, with avant-garde artists ensconced as securely salaried teachers in every college across the fruited plain, to the hyp...

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Published inNew England Review Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 87 - 93
Main Author Plagens, Peter
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Middlebury Middlebury College 22.06.2013
New England Review
Subjects
Art criticism
Art education
Art exhibitions
Art exhibits
Art galleries & museums
Art teachers
Artists
Conceptual art
Fischl, Eric
Memoirs
Modern art
Modernist art
Teachers
Visual artists
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Summary:For those who haven't followed particularly closely the dramatis personae in the art world's metamorphosis from, at the end of the 1970's, a late-stage academic dole, with avant-garde artists ensconced as securely salaried teachers in every college across the fruited plain, to the hyper-moneyed reincarnation of vaudeville it is today--Eric Fischl is one of Amerca's most successful contemporary serious figurative painters. Photography's superiority in capturing the visible world on a two-dimensional surface supposedly killed painting in the nineteenth century and now, as the 1970's got under way, video and conceptual art were putatively ending painting's--mostly abstract painting's--place on the cutting edge of modern art. Among other things Plagens shares that in the conventional Hollywood memoir--and Bad Boy is an art-world Hollywood memoir--the star experiences a rude awakening regarding the price of success and the livin-large it has provided.
ISSN:1053-1297
2161-9131
2161-9131
DOI:10.1353/ner.2013.0075