Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light collects 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.

Introduction by Jarrett Earnest

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.

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.

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light is the apex of artistic criticism and commentary.” —Steve Martin

“The great New Yorker art critic writes like an angel about everyone from Vermeer to Picasso, Donatello to Andy Warhol, in beautiful, enjoyable, accessible essays across 30 years.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
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Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light collects 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.

Introduction by Jarrett Earnest

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.

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.

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light is the apex of artistic criticism and commentary.” —Steve Martin

“The great New Yorker art critic writes like an angel about everyone from Vermeer to Picasso, Donatello to Andy Warhol, in beautiful, enjoyable, accessible essays across 30 years.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
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Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light collects 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.

Introduction by Jarrett Earnest

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.

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.

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light is the apex of artistic criticism and commentary.” —Steve Martin

“The great New Yorker art critic writes like an angel about everyone from Vermeer to Picasso, Donatello to Andy Warhol, in beautiful, enjoyable, accessible essays across 30 years.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781419735264
Publisher: Abrams Press
Publication date: 05/12/2020
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 635,017
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Peter Schjeldahl was the art critic for The New Yorker 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 Seven Days and the Village Voice. In 2019, Abrams published his Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light: 100 Art Writings, 1988-2018, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.


Jarrett Earnest is a writer and curator, and the author of What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with Art Critics (2018). He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Seeing as a Contact Sport Jarrett Earnest… 1

Part I Hot & Cold

Hot

Andy Warhol 8

Willem De Kooning 12

"Women" Willem De Kooning Jean Dubuffet 16

Arshile Gorky 19

Two by Rembrandt 23

Zurbarán's Citrons 25

Velázquez 29

Courbet 33

Jackson Pollock 36

Jean-Michel Basquiat 38

Anselm Kiefer at MoMa 41

Otto Dix 44

Picasso and the Weeping Women 48

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec 51

Jane Dickson / Karen Finley 54

Keith Hah1Ng, 1956-1990 58

Ree Morton 59

Hélio Oiticica 62

Elizabeth Murray 66

Elizabeth Peyton 67

Bronzino 68

A Van Gogh Portrait 72

Kerry James Marshall 75

Henri Matisse I 79

Henri Matisse II 82

Cold

Andy Warhol's Grave 87

Baltic Views 90

Caspar David Friedrich 94

Joseph Beuys 97

Anselm Kiefer at Gagosian 100

S1Gmar Polke 103

Martin Kippenberger 106

URS Fischer 109

Shepard Fairey 110

Frederic Remington 114

Christopher Wool 118

Weegee 122

Adolescents 125

Mark Morrisroe 128

Louise Lawler and Institutional Critique 131

Pictures 135

Jenny Holzer 139

A Theft in Norway 141

Judith Leyster 144

Lucian Freud 148

Francis Bacon 151

Edgar Degas 156

Luc Tuymans 159

Peter Doig 163

Laura Owens: A Profile 164

Goya 178

Part II Heavy & Light

Heavy

Berlin, 1989 182

Removal of the Tilted Arc 184

Concrete and Scott Burton 186

Picasso Sculpture 190

Donatello 194

Augustus Saint-Gaudens 196

The Greeks 200

Charles Ray 203

Bruce Nauman 204

Rachel Harrison: A Profile 207

Thomas Hirschhorn 219

Jay Defeo 223

Alice Neel 227

Philip Guston 231

Martin Luther 234

The Ghent Altar Piece 239

Giorgio Morandi 252

Piet Mondrian 256

Mantegna 259

Young Rembrandt 262

Clement Greenberg, 1909-1994 264

Leo Castelli 268

Cindy Sherman at Metro Pictures 279

Cindy Sherman at MoMa 282

Jeff Koons: Sympathy for the Devil 286

Light

Fireworks 292

Felix González-Torres 295

Piero Della Francesca 298

Giovanni Bellini 303

Agnes Martin 304

Vermeer 308

Peter Hujar 312

Henri Cartier-Bresson 316

Helen Levitt 321

Thomas Struth 324

Mother Love (Whistler) 327

Karen Kilimnik 331

David Hockney 334

Frans Hals 336

The Auctions 340

Market Value 341

Fakery 344

Marcel Broodthaers 347

Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray 351

Mughal Paintings and Andrew Wyeth 354

Florine Stettheimer 357

Albert Oehlen 361

Bill Traylor 365

Abstraction 369

Credo: The Critic as Artist 374

Acknowledging 383

Index 385

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