From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts-musical, literary, and visual-and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us.As...

The concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--is a vividly written, illuminating...

In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists-Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them-who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and...