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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) [a] was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.
Undeterred by the hostile critical response to The Painted Word, and perhaps even encouraged by the stir the book made, Wolfe set about writing a critique of modern architecture. From Bauhaus to Our House was published in full in two issues of Harper's Magazine, then issued in book form by Wolfe's long-time publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux in ...
Wolfe's thesis in The Painted Word was that by the 1970s, modern art had moved away from being a visual experience, and more often was an illustration of art critics' theories. Wolfe criticized avant-garde art, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. The main target of Wolfe's book, however, was not so much the artists, as the critics.
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This list of books about Thomas Wolfe (1900 – 1938) includes biographies, literary criticism, and like books. Wolfe is widely considered to be a major American novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century, and some critics consider some of his work to be worthy of inclusion in the American literary canon.
Harold Bloom called the book the definitive biography of Wolfe. [2] Library Journal called the book the most successful of Wolfe's three major biographies to that date [ 3 ] (it had been preceded by books by Wolfe's agent Elizabeth Nowell [ 4 ] (1960) and by Andrew Turnbull (1967), [ 5 ] both titled Thomas Wolfe: A Biography ; other biographies ...
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Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist. [1] [2] He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. [1]