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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
Publisher Penguin Press
Publication Date 2016-02-09
Section New Hardcover - Nonfiction / Literary Crit & Biography
Format Hardcover
ISBN 9781594204838
Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O.
Using his own film criticism as a starting point—everything from his infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar's animated Ratatouille—Scott expands outward, easily guiding readers through the complexities of Rilke and Shelley, the origins of Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, the power of Marina Abramovich and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn.' Drawing on the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, Scott shows that real criticism was and always will be the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive. "The time for criticism is always now," Scott explains, "because the imperative to think clearly, to insist on the necessary balance of reason and passion, never goes away."
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