- Hardcover: 328 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press (May 11 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0300081871
- ISBN-13: 978-0300081879
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.6 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 957 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
Loosely grouped under three intriguing categories ("Parents," "Autonomy" and "Collaborations"), Ambition & Love in Modern American Art tracks definitions of significant art as they changed over the 20th century. In looking for what shapes significance, artist Jonathan Weinberg (Speaking for Vice) focuses on the role of ambition, celebrity and desire, the forces of public life outside the artist's studio, and their inevitable encroachment on what happens within it. His nine loosely connected essays examine the works and lives of Whistler, Jackson Pollock, Sally Mann, Jean-Michel Basquiat and others. But rather than capturing and isolating some element of timeless significant form, Weinberg suggests that an artist's real talent "is a matter of convincing others that you are talented."
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"Essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of twentieth-century American art. Lucid, accessible, and studded with insights, Weinberg's essays add up to a powerful take on the meaning of artistic ambition and artistic success." Alan Wallach, College of William and Mary"
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Try in vain to put it down.,
By "keithkaky" (Autin, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ambition and Love in Modern American Art (Hardcover)
I, like others, picked up Weinberg's book after the stellar Nochlin review. I was somewhat puzzled by the project at first, but as is often the case with the art Weinberg discusses, "Ambition and Love in Modern American Art" is too seductive to dismiss. While his categories seem vague, even silly, his discussion of the artists and their work is elegant. His style is always engaging, mostly because it is so often personal. I suspect that critics have been troubled by Weinberg's approach, the lack of any real scholarly investigation, replaced by coffee-table talk and emotional musings. I can't really refute such critiques. But I do think that Weinberg's approach holds a lesson for all those interested in studying, writing about, and even practicing art. To try and separate oneself from the art you create or examine is a futile enteprise. His inclusion and discussion of such themes (God forbid!) as love, desire, and ambition adds a much needed jolt of blood and flesh into art history. It reminds us that art history is no science and that art historians need not feel so insecure about that. After all, art-making itself is not just a process of intellect, it is one of passion. Perhaps historians should investigate their own stirrings a bit more, as Weinberg has done here, to make their own scholarship truly insightful and what's more, readable.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Perfect Antidote to the Myth of the Pure Genius,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ambition and Love in Modern American Art (Hardcover)
This is one of the best art history reads I've had in a long time. Wenberg's is an original mind. You just have to try it for yourself.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must for scholars of American art!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ambition and Love in Modern American Art (Hardcover)
Picked up this book based on Linda Nochlin's rave review in Art in America, and also, having recently heard Weinberg speak in New Mexico. This is a smart well-written text which will appeal to scholars and regular folks as well. Chapter on O'Keeffe, and the one on O'Keeffe and Stieglitz quite fascinating, as is the Weinberg's take on Agee and Evans. I plan on assigning this to my students for a course on 20th century American art.
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