JoAnn Wypijewski
Auteur de Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art
Œuvres de JoAnn Wypijewski
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Lieux de résidence
- New York City, New York, USA
- Professions
- Editor, The Nation, 1982-2000
Activist - Organisations
- Kopkind, co-founder
Membres
Critiques
What We Don't Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life par Joann Wypijewski
A bizarrely untimely book that cherry picks evidence to give perpetrators every benefit of every doubt while throwing every tired sexist trope at accusers. Verso Books, what were you thinking? If only we could give negative stars.
½
Komar and Melamid traveled the world, holding town-hall style meetings to determine what people most (and least) wanted to see in a painting. There are charts and graphs to support their findings, and of course, finished paintings representing each nation's ideal. It's interesting to see how similar and yet how different the most and least wanted pictures are all over the world - bucolic landscapes with national heroes hanging out with big animals top the list everywhere - and the quasi-scientific text is a hilarious counterpoint.… (plus d'informations)
A fantastic book which operates simultaneously on many levels: satire, tongue in cheek mockery, serious social commentary, and just plan fun.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 174
- Popularité
- #123,126
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 9