The Painted Word

"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. The Painted Word is Tom Wolfe "at his most clever, amusing, and irreverent" (San Francisco Chronicle).

• From Bauhaus To Our House
• Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
• Art Since 1960 (World of Art)
• The Kingdom of Speech
• THE KANDY-KOLORED TANGERINE-FLAKE STREAMLINE BABY
• The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Aesthetics: The Big Questions
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
• The Grand Inquisitor: with related chapters from The Brothers Karamazov (Hackett Classics)
• Beauty: A Very Short Introduction