Pretentiousness - Why it Matters

Author(s): Dan Fox

Essays

Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that's making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. It's an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose accusations of elitism over open-mindedness? What do our anxieties about "pretending" say about us?


Co-editor of frieze, Europe's foremost magazine of contemporary art and culture, Dan Fox has authored over two hundred essays, interviews, and reviews and contributed to numerous catalogues and publications produced by major international art galleries and institutions.


Product Information

'Pretentiousness: Why it Matters is more than a smartly counterintuitive encomium: it's a lucid and impassioned defence of thinking, creating and, ultimately, living in a world increasingly dominated by the massed forces of social and intellectual conservatism.' - Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island

Dan Fox is a writer, musician, and co-editor of frieze magazine, Europe's foremost magazine of art and culture. He is based in New York.

General Fields

  • : 9781910695043
  • : Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • : Fitzcarraldo Editions
  • : February 2016
  • : 195mm X 127mm
  • : February 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Dan Fox
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 700.1
  • : 224
  • : DNF
  • : 12 black & white illustrations