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Article: Aristotle in the land of the slot machine.(social critic Dave Hickey in Las Vegas, Nevada)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- January 17, 2000
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Imagine a cross between the Victorian aesthete Walter Pater and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, and you have something close to Dave Hickey: a critic whose single-minded pursuit of beauty takes him to some of the more unlikely corners of American culture, including those often dismissed as popular, commercial, or otherwise "unserious." The author of Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy, Hickey has been riling the art world and assorted tenured culturati with his heretical pronouncements on such things as the excellence of Norman Rockwell's paintings, the folly of government arts funding, and the charms of Las Vegas.
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