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Article: Reenter the Dragon.(Entertainment; CULTURE)(Dave Hickey's The Invisible Dragon)
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- Newsweek
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- March 23, 2009
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Byline: Jennie Yabroff
An art-world flamethrower returns from exile.
In 1993, a cultural critic named Dave Hickey published a collection of essays positing that the experience of looking at art should be pleasurable. An innocuous-enough assertion, but the art world took offense at the idea that what a work looked like was more important than what it meant. This was, after all, at the height of conceptual art, where the message trumped the media. (Think Jenny Holzer's condoms that read "Men Don't Protect You Anymore.") Not long after, Hickey gave a university lecture during which, as he later wrote, "the faculty rose en masse from their seats in the back ...
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Article: Do you understand? The Dave Hickey Experience.
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... ... lecture at California State University, San Bernardino, Dave Hickey rhetorically asked "Do you understand?" Fortunately, he ... with many of us shaking our heads answering "no". The Dave Hickey Experience is fascinating, intellectual, entertaining and ...
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