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Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018

Written by: Peter Schjeldahl, Jarrett Earnest - introduction
Narrated by: Peter Schjeldahl
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Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings - some long, some short - that taken together form a group portrait of many of the world’s most significant and interesting artists. From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman, Old Masters to contemporary masters, paintings to comix, and saints to charlatans, Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and confusing art world, an expert guide to a dazzling scene.

No other writer enhances the listener's experience of art in precise, jargon-free prose as Schjeldahl does. His reviews are more essay than criticism, and he offers engaging and informative accounts of artists and their work. For more than three decades, he has written about art with Emersonian openness and clarity. A fresh perspective, an unexpected connection, a lucid gloss on a big idea awaits the listener in every minute of this big, absorbing, buzzing audiobook.

©2019 Peter Schjeldahl (P)2019 Abrams Press Art History & Criticism Entertainment Visual Art
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Not labelling the chapters with the name of the artists he’s reviewing was a mistake. Occasionally I want to go back to an essay and relisten to it so I have to either guess the chapter or label them with my bookmarks. It wouldn’t take much effort but it would’ve made the reader experience a lot simpler in a 15 hour audiobook.

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