# Far from Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art - Hardcover

by **Daniel Oppenheimer** (Author)

**Finalist, 2021 Writers' League of Texas Book Award**

Regarded as both a legend and a villain, the critic Dave Hickey has inspired generations of artists, art critics, musicians, and writers. His 1993 book _The Invisible Dragon_ became a cult hit for its potent and provocative critique of the art establishment and its call to reconsider the role of beauty in art. His next book, 1997's _Air Guitar_, introduced a new kind of cultural criticism--simultaneously insightful, complicated, vulnerable, and down-to-earth--that propelled Hickey to fame as an iconoclastic thinker, loved and loathed in equal measure, whose influence extended beyond the art world.

_Far from Respectable_ is a focused, evocative exploration of Hickey's work, his impact on the field of art criticism, and the man himself, from his Huck Finn childhood to his drug-fueled periods as both a New York gallerist and Nashville songwriter to, finally, his anointment as a tenured professor and MacArthur Fellow. Drawing on in-person interviews with Hickey, his friends and family, and art world comrades and critics, Daniel Oppenheimer examines the controversial writer's distinctive takes on a broad range of subjects, including Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, academia, Las Vegas, basketball, country music, and considers how Hickey and his vision of an "ethical, cosmopolitan paganism" built around a generous definition of art is more urgently needed than ever before.

### Author Biography

Daniel Oppenheimer is is the author of _Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left_ and _Reshaped the American Century_. He has written for the _Washington Post_, The _Atlantic_, Slate, _Washington Monthly_, _Texas Monthly_, _Guernica_, and _The New Republic_, among others.

**Number of Pages:** 152

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 7 x 6.2 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** June 01, 2021

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