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by Tom Wolfe (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Picador USA (14 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0312427581
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312427580
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 176,229 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Shockingly Gripping, 21 Nov 2003
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I picked up this book as I had nothing left to read. I picked it up and with trepidation began absorbing the first few words and when I looked up again realised that I was thoroughly absorbed and was half way through his diatribe. Tom Wolfe is just plain and simple a masterful writer with intelligence. He speaks of his epiphany (if you will) of when he read an article and it basically summed up that art is not art unless you believe in the theory in it's meaning and thus you see through this to the art. All very pompous really - gone are the days of art being just a painting - no, it's all mish mashed and made literary. And so begins his book, on how modern art became thus and on the le monde and 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 and basically shockingly gripping.
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