Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture (Vintage) - Softcover

Kammen, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400034647 ISBN 13: 9781400034642

Publisher: Vintage Books, 2008

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"Deep, richly detailed, and enlightening."--The Boston Globe"Compelling. . . . A nuanced study . . . offers an important context for looking at ongoing issues of censorship and debates about the point of art."--The Miami Herald "Kammen . . . handles these variegated brouhahas with welcome deftness; he squeezes in all the facts while maintaining a nice narrative flow."--The Nation"A detailed and comprehensive survey of the history of artistic battles in the United States."--The Houston Chronicle

About the Author:

Michael Kammen was born in Rochester in 1936. He took his BA at George Washington University and his PhD at Harvard. He is Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1965. A past President of the Organization of American Historians, he is the author or editor of numerous works and has lectured throughout the world. His People of Paradox was a Pulitzer Prize winner.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1400034647
• ISBN 13: 9781400034642
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480