Jerry Saltz Book Recommendations
Jerry Saltz is an art critic. Jerry Saltz: Senior Art Critic; New York Magazine. 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Author of NYT Best Seller “How To Be an Artist.” 2-time ASME award winner.
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
Jerry SaltzJerry SaltzBooks Issue: Jerry Saltz: Art is Life - Galleries West. Thank you Sarah Swan. I admit you are right about me veering into obnoxiousness. A terrible tendency I so try to keep in check. And then fail at it even as I think I have licked it. Thank you. https://t.co/qjrfOehf5L
Hardcover, 2022
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Phone
Will SelfJerry Saltz4/4. Be a good assistant to yourself. Prepare and gather, make notations and sketches in your head or phone. When you work, all that mapping, architecture, research & preparation will be your past self giving a gift to the future self that you are now. That is the sacred.
Paperback, 2019
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Intentions
Oscar WildeJerry Saltz“It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.” - Oscar Wilde
Paperback, 2016
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Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Rax KingJerry Saltz“For a woman, a scream is a potent reclamation of space that cannot be claimed any other way. Everybody wants to sidle up to a pretty young girl all the time unless she’s screaming.” Rax King; From her book “Tacky”.
Paperback, 2021
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An Essay on Criticism
Alexander PopeJerry Saltz@emilynussbaum Two of my favorite books are Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism” and his translation of “The Iliad,”both written in heroic couplets. Pope teaches precession, wit, concision, and poise.
Paperback, 2018
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Divine Comedy: Inferno/Dante
DanteJerry SaltzWhat books have put such a spell on you that you’ve read them more than once or over & over? Replies should probably be embarrassing. 1 Proust 2 Milton’s Paradise Lost 3 Dante’s Divine Comedy. 4 DH Lawrence “Studies in Classic Am. Literature 5. Wallace Stevens Collected Works
Paperback, Mass Market, 2005
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The Odyssey
HomerJerry SaltzThis is a statement about the greatness of art! If only 0.000000001% of it survives, its enough to change human consciousness. 99.999999999% of all art is gone. As tremendous as Homer’s Odyssey is, it is all but certain that equally great & far greater works are long gone.
Hardcover, 2010
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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni MorrisonJerry SaltzThe 90% all-white ethno-nationalist morally-damaged Republican Party of Florida is banning two of the greatest books ever written by an American. Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and “Beloved.” ▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️▫️ Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War.
Paperback, 2004
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The Marriage of Figaro: full orchestral score
W. a. MozartJerry SaltzListen to the final aria of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” in the performance “Bliss” by Ragnar Kjartansson. Or any recording and you will know the redemption of love.
Paperback, 2018
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William Eggleston: The Outlands
William EgglestonJerry SaltzWilliam Eggleston "The Outlands” is an eyewitness account of a country that somehow survived its own death and is already in the antechamber of its own afterlife. See fate hang in the air. https://t.co/3q9gPLJWfW
Hardcover, 2021
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