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Art Is Life

Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night

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Art Is Life

Auteur(s): Jerry Saltz
Narrateur(s): Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
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 From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist: a deliciously readable survey of the art world in turbulent times

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. Art Histoire et critique de l'art Sciences sociales Spirituel Divertissement Visual Art

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Praise for Art is Life:

“From Kara Walker to Georgia O’Keeffe to Andy Warhol, Saltz surveys the contemporary art world with brilliant brush strokes.” —TIME

“Whether considering a poorly understood painter from history or assessing the new and controversial, Saltz manages to impart his belief that art involves story, and storymaking is the stuff of life. His philosophy, like the man himself, is ageless.” —Los Angeles Times

“A love letter to the art that, for Saltz, makes all the wheeling and dealing worth putting up with. . . . Saltz [has a] rare ability to articulate the mysterious alchemy of great art, the ways in which looking at some pigment on canvas can somehow blow open doors within the soul to reveal expansive, unknown places.” —New York Times Book Review

“Art is Life is a near-perfect summary of a singularly critical voice. . . . despite writing about a medium that tends more toward solemn nods than squeals of excitement, Jerry Saltz can be very fun to read.” —Chicago Tribune
“[Saltz] looks at the various crises and New York City’s art scene—the aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis, the coronavirus pandemic—and depicts an ebullient yet fragile world undergoing perpetual reinvention. He writes formidable portraits of people such as Beauford Delaney and describes the jaw-dropping splendor of Paleolithic cave paintings in Niaux, France. He worships artwork while denouncing the excesses of its business, taking pleasure in ridiculing the frequently obscene industry’s theatrical auctions and overinflated cycle of openings, biennials, and fairs.” —Farah Abdessamad, The Atlantic

“Personal and entertaining.” —Garden & Gun

“Eminently accessible, often humorous (he is a master of the sharp parenthetical aside), and stimulating. The art world is convoluted, but Saltz cuts right through it.” —Publishers Weekly

“Illuminating . . . A sweeping survey and fervent defense of the value of art in modern life.” —Kirkus Reviews

“There's no one quite like Saltz. . . . He's the best art critic working today.” —Shelf Awareness

Praise for Jerry Saltz:

“The world’s most famous and celebrated contemporary art critic.” —GQ

“One of the most powerful art critics today.” —Time Out

“A critic of the people, bringing art to a broader audience.” —Architectural Digest

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A truly delightful journey through some of the most important and significant moments, movements and personalities of the art world!

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Jerry Saltz became part of my daily life. I’d wake up and listen to him before breakfast. He would always start my day. His slow, well chosen words were like watching a landscape painting , they were calming and kind. Even when he was looking at art which visually I didn’t want in my head or eyes, he found good things to say and was severely honest. I believed him. The last two chapters proved to me what a very nice man this is indeed, and I don’t come across those that often. Pro all underdogs of the art world, he gives everyone a chance and seems to think they all have a chance at art. His writing is unique, it’s lulling, it slows down the world and makes us look at art and life at a pace we should all live at. He lives many, many miles from me, in a different country no less, but I felt he was my neighbor,the kind you want next door. I loved so much of his writing, his unique view of life, and I grew not to care about the art, but more how he felt about it, and what words he would use to tell their story. I love his writing. It’s familiar and new at the same time. He’s a simple man with a worldly view, and I just want to know what he has to say. His chapter on Jasper Johns made me want to buy this book, it’s the kindest summary of any artist/human being. He does what he says Johns does- he looks and looks and looks. …. At everything. I have already told all my artist friends to buy the book, get it from the library, get it into your life one way or a other. It will enrich your very soul.

A Real Human

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I absolutely LOVED Art Is Life by Jerry Saltz! There is so much great art history, critique and fascinating storytelling packed into this fast paced book, I am simply wowed. I was especially pleased that Jerry narrated it himself, as it leant real authenticity to the work. Highly recommended for art fans!

The audiobook actually has well labelled chapter names and numbers, but I wanted to be able to easily grab the artist names, so that I could easily Google them. Hence the below - plus a few comments from me.


Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
by Jerry Saltz

Chapter Guide I pulled together from the audiobook


Introduction
Saltz reflects on his beginnings, his failed start as an artist, and how he came to write about art.
The Medusa and the Pequod
My Life as a Failed Artist (fascinating)

The World Before and During: 1999–2001
Essays from the turn of the century explore shiny Americana, unflinching portraits, artistic anger, and shifting cultural landscapes.
Jeff Koons — spectacle and kitsch elevated to cultural icon
Alice Neel — psychological portraits that cut to the bone
David Wojnarowicz
Robert Gober
Chris Ofili — controversy, beauty, and symbolism
Garry Winogrand

What Different Looked Like: 2001–2008
This section ranges from middle America and Harlem to global politics and pop spectacle.
Norman Rockwell
Jacob Lawrence — Harlem history in sharp color and form
Amar Kanwar
Steve McQueen — his life as artist before his film career
Luc Tuymans
Thomas Hirschhorn — sprawling installations as social critique
Nan Goldin — intimacy and the raw edge of life
Carroll Dunham
Takashi Murakami — “superflat” blending pop and fine art
Elizabeth Murray
Robert Rauschenberg

Toward a Reckoning: 2009–2016
Saltz follows the art world into a new century’s crises of sexuality, provocation, politics, and power.
Pipilotti Rist, Cheryl Donegan, Kim Rosenfield
Lisa Yuskavage
The Pictures Generation
Duke Riley
Georgia O’Keeffe — Saltz attempts to explain why she is so undervalued (love her work!)
Louise Bourgeois — late recognition for a lifelong radical
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
Willem de Kooning (I need to study his work more)
Helen Frankenthaler
Dorothea Tanning
Cindy Sherman
Thomas Kinkade
George W. Bush (as painter)
Philip Guston
Chris Burden
Taryn Simon

The Long American Night: 2016–2021
The recent decade, bringing urgency, darkness, and fierce debates about modern and contemporary art.
Kerry James Marshall
Eric Fischl
Andreas Gursky
Danny Lyon
Jean-Michel Basquiat — market darling, enduring influence
Barack & Michelle Obama portraits - interesting cultural context here
Bears Heart (Ledger art)
Kara Walker
Leonardo da Vinci (Salvator Mundi) — yes, he’s not of this era, but here for a reason
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Cy Twombly
Hilma af Klint
Andy Warhol — mass culture’s mirror (just read Warhol, by Blake Gopnik, it’s fantastic!)
Joseph Yoakum
Beauford Delaney
Jason Polan
Sandro Botticelli (why this renaissance artist is included here is interesting!)
Caravaggio — framed as how “How Caravaggio Destroyed (and Saved) Painting”
Jasper Johns (they had an interesting relationship)


Full audiobook information (based on the edition in my Audible library):

Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
WRITTEN BY Jerry Saltz
NARRATED BY Jerry Saltz, Mark Bramhall
RELEASE DATE 2022-11-01
FORMAT Unabridged Audiobook
LENGTH 16 hrs and 1 min
PUBLISHER Penguin Audio

Loved it!

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Mostly American, mostly well-known contemporary artists and art scene viewed critically and generously, getting into the issues that concern artists today. Fun and inclusive. Jerry reveals something of himself too, which kept it real....

Frank, insightful and engaging for art lovers

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