{"product_id":"hot-cold-heavy-light-100-art-writings-1988-2018-9781419735264","title":"Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHot, Cold, Heavy, Light \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ecollects 100 writings from 1988-2018--some long, some short--that taken together form a group portrait of many of the world's most significant and interesting artists. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction by Jarrett Earnest\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman, Old Masters to contemporary masters, paintings to comix, and saints to charlatans, art critic Peter Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and confusing art world, an expert guide to a dazzling scene. No other writer enhances the reader'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A fresh perspective, an unexpected connection, a lucid gloss on a big idea awaits the reader on every page of this big, absorbing, buzzing book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHot, Cold, Heavy, Light\u003c\/i\u003e is the apex of artistic criticism and commentary.\" --Steve Martin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The great \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e art critic writes like an angel about everyone from Vermeer to Picasso, Donatello to Andy Warhol, in beautiful, enjoyable, accessible essays across 30 years.\" --\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Schjeldahl \u003c\/b\u003ewas the art critic for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e for 24 years until his death in 2022. He was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Prior to that, he wrote art criticism for \u003ci\u003eSeven Days\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2019, Abrams published his \u003ci\u003eHot, Cold, Heavy, Light: 100 Art Writings, 1988-2018, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJarrett Earnest \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eWhat It Means to Write About Art: Interviews with Art Critics \u003c\/i\u003e(2018). A frequent lecturer on contemporary art, he lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Abrams Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645671215378,"sku":"9781419735264","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b027ff53-b75a-49fc-8f40-86fb48b5af93.jpg?v=1733158747","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hot-cold-heavy-light-100-art-writings-1988-2018-9781419735264","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}