03370cam a22003858i 4500 22418248 PUCPR 20230209162242.0 220210s2022 nyu 001 0 eng 2022006448 9780593086490 (hardcover) 9780593086506 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC pcc PUCPR N72.S6 S248 2022 701/.03 23/eng/20220216 23 Saltz, Jerry, 1951- author. Art is life : icons and iconoclasts, visionaries and vigilantes, and flashes of hope in the night / Jerry Saltz. 2211 New York : Riverhead Books, 2022. pages cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes index. The World Before and During: 1999-2001 -- What Different Looked Like: 2001-2008 -- Toward a Reckoning: 2009-2016 -- The Long American Night: 2016-2021. "Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary readers to fine art as few critics have. An early champion of forgotten and overlooked women artists, he has also celebrated the pioneering work of African American, LGBTQ+, and other long-marginalized creators. Sotheby's Institute of Art has called him, simply, "the art critic." Now, in Art Is Life, Jerry Saltz draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times. Chronicling a period punctuated by dramatic turning points-from the cultural reset of 9/11 to the rolling social crises of today-Saltz traces how visionary artists have both documented and challenged the culture. Art Is Life offers Saltz's eye-opening appraisals of trailblazers like Kara Walker, David Wojnarowicz, Hilma af Klint, and Jasper Johns; provocateurs like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, and Marina Abramović; and visionaries like Jackson Pollock, Bill Traylor, and Willem de Kooning. Saltz celebrates landmarks like the Obama portraits by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, writes searchingly about disturbing moments such as the Ankara gallery assassination, and offers surprising takes on figures from Thomas Kinkade to Kim Kardashian. And he shares stories of his own haunted childhood, his time as a "failed artist," and his epiphanies upon beholding work by Botticelli, Delacroix, and the cave painters of Niaux. With his signature blend of candor and conviction, Jerry Saltz argues in Art Is Life for the importance of the fearless artist-reminding us that art is a kind of channeled voice of human experience, a necessary window onto our times. The result is an openhearted and irresistibly readable appraisal by one of our most important cultural observers"-- Provided by publisher. Art and society. Online version: Saltz, Jerry, 1951- Art is life New York : Riverhead Books, 2022 9780593086506 (DLC) 2022006449 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc 6 299168 299168 0 0 ddc 0 0 10 10 1 2023-01-10 19 25.44 0 701.03 S179a 80000002629221 2023-01-10 00:00:00 25.44 2023-01-10 6