Theater
September, 1975
Early last year, Tom Wolfe was wading through his Sunday New York Times when he stumbled upon an art critic's obiter dictum: "To lack a persuasive theory is to lack something crucial." That, cried Wolfe, is too freaking much! In one swift phrase, the great game of modern art was revealed! He tells us how, and why, in The Painted Word (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a short essay on the Byzantine world of Boho artists, Uptown critics, the culturati and other sleek denizens of Cultureburg. Th...
