The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe [1980 PAPERBACK] Bantam
The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1980] BANTAM BOOKS
Mass market paperback. Tanning and some very mild creasing to cover.
Inside has some notes & underlining. [see photos]
"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post)
Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. This is Tom Wolfe "at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent"