Dave Hickey
The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty and Other Matters: 30th Anniversary Edition
The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty and Other Matters: 30th Anniversary Edition
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A MacArthur Genius Fellow and one of the most influential cultural writers of the 21st century, Dave Hickey is known for his advocacy of beauty and his criticism of the therapeutic institution. His book "Dragon: The Art of Writing Well" combines essays on beauty with newly discovered essays by the MacArthur Foundation "genius."
Format: Hardback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 24 October 2023
Publisher: Art Issues Press,U.S.
“If this book of shocking intelligence and moral hope is read widely and above all well, word for word, it will help the world.” —Peter Schjeldahl
An expanded edition of Hickey's controversial and exquisitely written apologia for beauty—championed by artists, reviled by art critics, and as powerful as ever 30 years on. The 30th anniversary cloth edition brings back into print Dragon's four essays on beauty and commingles them with newly discovered essays by the MacArthur Foundation "genius." Art by Caravaggio, Bellini, Velázquez, Raphael, Warhol, and Mapplethorpe is complemented by Hickey's tributes to Dolly Parton and Richard Pryor, outing of John Rechy's gay novel Numbers, essays on the art of writing, and witty analysis of paintings by Ed Ruscha. An afterword by Hickey's friend and Dragon's editor queers the brash, heterosexual gambler as it situates the creation of Dragon squarely within the AIDS plague. At the time, the book made beauty visible under the looming presence of death and bodily decay. Today, Hickey's prescient diagnosis of the "therapeutic institution" resonates even louder, and artists respond by harnessing beauty as a source of meaning and of joy.
Dave Hickey (1938–2021) was one of the preeminent arts and cultural writers of the turn of the 21st century. A MacArthur Genius Fellow known as the beauty guy in the popular press, Hickey opened A Clean, Well-Lighted Place gallery in Austin, Texas, in the 1960s, before becoming executive editor at Art in America magazine. In the 1970s, he was a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, where he coined and helped create the Outlaw country music movement. By the 1990s, Hickey had made a home in Las Vegas, from where he regularly traveled to speak with audiences worldwide.
Dimension: 229 x 146 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9798987596500
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