{"product_id":"far-from-respectable-dave-hickey-and-his-art-9781477320150","title":"Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eRegarded as both a legend and a villain, the critic Dave Hickey has inspired generations of artists, art critics, musicians, and writers. His 1993 book \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Dragon\u003c\/i\u003e became a cult hit for its potent and provocative critique of the art establishment and its call to reconsider the role of beauty in art. His next book, 1997's \u003ci\u003eAir Guitar\u003c\/i\u003e, introduced a new kind of cultural criticism--simultaneously insightful, complicated, vulnerable, and down-to-earth--that propelled Hickey to fame as an iconoclastic thinker, loved and loathed in equal measure, whose influence extended beyond the art world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFar from Respectable\u003c\/i\u003e is a focused, evocative exploration of Hickey's work, his impact on the field of art criticism, and the man himself, from his Huck Finn childhood to his drug-fueled periods as both a New York gallerist and Nashville songwriter to, finally, his anointment as a tenured professor and MacArthur Fellow. Drawing on in-person interviews with Hickey, his friends and family, and art world comrades and critics, Daniel Oppenheimer examines the controversial writer's distinctive takes on a broad range of subjects, including Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, academia, Las Vegas, basketball, country music, and considers how Hickey and his vision of an \"ethical, cosmopolitan paganism\" built around a generous definition of art is more urgently needed than ever before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oppenheimer, Daniel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477320150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Daniel Oppenheimer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39626594680907,"sku":"9781477320150","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_58b4e5d1-4dc2-4e6a-9bd1-e3f124e90b4c.jpg?v=1640704848","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/far-from-respectable-dave-hickey-and-his-art-9781477320150","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}