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Article: Dave Hickey.(Review)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Tim Hilton's John Ruskin: The Later Years (Yale University Press), together with The Early Years (1985), seems to me the model biography of a cultural figure. The book is fluid for all its length, judicious about a notoriously fractious subject, and unpretentiously literate throughout. Hilton recounts the events of Ruskin's life straight through, in one- and two-year increments, digressing when necessary and referencing forward and backward when appropriate. Far from a mere recounting, however, the book is suffused with Hilton's intimate knowledge of Ruskin's ...
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... ... flamethrower returns from exile. In 1993, a cultural critic named Dave Hickey published a collection of essays positing that the experience ... objects to gain our social goals." One thing is clear: Dave Hickey still knows how to breathe fire.
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