Peter Schjeldahl
The Hydrogen Jukebox
Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978-1990
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"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
"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
Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s, by Lewis Mumford