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The Hydrogen Jukebox

Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978-1990

Peter Schjeldahl (Author), MaLin Wilson (Editor), Robert Storr (Introduction)

Available worldwide

Paperback, 380 pages
ISBN: 9780520082823
March 1993
$32.95, £22.95

Peter Schjeldahl is art critic for the Village Voice and contributing editor for Art in America. MaLin Wilson is an art critic, editor, and independent curator working in New Mexico. Robert Storr, an artist and writer, is currently a curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

“To read Schjeldahl is not to agree or disagree, but rather to enter the enchanting flow of a fertile imagination.”—Art in America

“Here’s art criticism that demonstrates the power of art to evoke art, in the form of some of the most lusciously written responses to visual beauty ever to hit print. . . . During a decade that defined art mostly through commerce, Schjeldahl consistently reminded readers of its necessary soul.”—Village Voice

“A shrewd and fluent critic, [Schjeldahl] has a masterly personal voice, flamboyant, witty, lyrical yet often precise; more important, he has an open-hearted attentiveness to the subjects of his criticism and the imaginative spaces around them.”—Times Literary Supplement

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