The Reviews That Caused the Rumpus
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The Reviews That Caused the Rumpus by Brian Sewell
To many people, the "Evening Standard" art critic, Brian Sewell, is the most well-informed, articulate and consistently direct of contemporary art critics, a man who gives praise when he thinks it is due but who does not equivocate in his condemnation of the second-rate. Such people enjoy his prose and revere him as a lone voice in an otherwise crazy world. For others, principally members of the contemporary art establishment, Sewell's reviews frequently deride their art and the exhibitions they put on. On 5th January 1994 the "Evening Standard" published a letter from members of this group demanding that Sewell be sacked on grounds of philistinism and "social and sexual hypocrisy". Thus began a furore which still continues - Sewell and his opponents traded insults on television in the course of which Sewell was described as vicious, ill-informed, misogynist and homophobic. The editor of the "Evening Standard" and hundreds of readers, came out in support of Sewell. Two months later Sewell was voted Art Critic of the Year for the second year running by his fellow journalists.Brian Sewell has been the London Evening Standard's art critic for almost 20 years and is one of the paper's most well-known political columnists, winning national and international press awards. He is a Courtauld Institute graduate who has authored exhibition publications for the Royal Academy, the British Council, and the Council of Europe, as well as contributing to the Royal Collection catalogues. He also spent a decade as an expert on old masters at Christie's, the worldwide art auctioneers, and as a consultant to museums and galleries in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and South Africa. He writes for scholarly journals and broadcasts on radio and television.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780747518723 |
| ISBN 10 | 0747518726 |
| Title | The Reviews That Caused the Rumpus |
| Author | Brian Sewell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 1994-11-10 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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