Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018

De: Peter Schjeldahl, Jarrett Earnest - introduction

Narrado por: Peter Schjeldahl

Hot Cold Heavy Light collects 100 writings - some long, some short - that taken together form a group portrait of many of the world’s most significant and interesting artists. From Pablo Picasso to Cindy Sherman, Old Masters to contemporary masters, paintings to comix, and saints to charlatans, Schjeldahl ranges widely through the diverse and confusing art world, an expert guide to a dazzling scene.

No other writer enhances the listener's experience of art in precise, jargon-free prose as Schjeldahl does. His reviews are more essay than criticism, and he offers engaging and informative accounts of artists and their work. For more than three decades, he has written about art with Emersonian openness and clarity. A fresh perspective, an unexpected connection, a lucid gloss on a big idea awaits the listener in every minute of this big, absorbing, buzzing audiobook.

©2019 Peter Schjeldahl (P)2019 Abrams Press

Many hours of art and wit.

Such a treat. Enjoyed all of it. Some pieces more than others of course. I like to have words in my head other than my own as I work and these words kept me engaged constantly. Would have been nice to have the chapters listed by title because I’ll certainly revisit favorites.

I just finished and want to start at the beginning

After reading him for decades, listening to this brilliant man read to me is a surpassing pleasure. Thank you!

Didn’t want it to end

I listened to this book each night as I painted. It was so wonderful that I didn’t want it to end. But sadly, it ended.

Peter Schjeldahl

Peter Schjeldahl
July 18, 2024
 
Listening with regret because of his passing to “Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light 100 Art Writings 1988-2018” by Peter Schjeldahl.  His voice reverberating in my head, he’s reading his reviews in that funky guttural high-pitched North Dakota accent of his; feels like I’m listening to my grandfather. I spent my summers on my grandfather’s farm in North Dakota.
 
Schjeldahl, a brilliant narrator, writer and critic makes me love Painting even more.  He writes of Warhol, Kiefer, Murray, Morton how many others …..De Kooning…Yellow is my favorite color he writes
 
My fantasy is how Schjeldahl would’ve loved “What A Wallop,” the yellowest, largest of my big yellow works from the mid 0’s.
To listen to that superb, brilliant voice, reciting his own reviews and thoughts of artist that we all dream of being, of emulating…
 
We were neighbors in the Catskills from 2004 until 2019 when we sold our farm, we spent many many summers 4th of July where his pyromania infected us and our friends as we laid in Brooke and his backyard.
Those marathon potlucks, then those fireworks, bonfires those glorious 4ths of July’s.  
What a Titan of pyrotechnics
 
His loss resonates in the back recesses of my mind as I listened to his voice, that funky Midwestern, North Dakota twang that I loved growing up within those empty great plains.
 
Peter quizzed me at one of those 4ths of July’s when he found out that I was from North Dakota. I don’t think he really believed me, so he tested me. Where is this city, what’s this part of the state? Do you know this? Do you know that.  I found it charming and a little breathtaking that he would take the time to quiz me… who in their right mind would claim to be North Dakotaen when they weren’t.
 
New York, New York, New York,
New York dominates my soul.
The emotion that fills me, makes me whole,
compels me to be smarter.
I’m eternal here, everlastingly essential.
 
 
 
 
 
 

needs pictures

The writing is great, that isn't the problem. The problem is that it doesn't make a good audiobook - i kept having to pause the book, stop what I was doing, and google the work of art being discussed. Discussion of visual art is not the best subject matter for an audiobook in my opinion.

Good writing

The narrator , although the talented writer is really difficult to hear! Please re record this incredible writing.
Thanks