{"product_id":"9780615524979-secondhand-portrait-of-murdock-pemberton-the-new-yorkers-first-art-critic","title":"Portrait Of Murdock Pemberton: The New Yorker's First Art Critic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before the art world had a common vocabulary, Murdock Pemberton was shaping it — one sharp, witty column at a time. Portrait of Murdock Pemberton: The New Yorker's First Art Critic chronicles the life and career of a man who stood at the crossroads of American modernism, holding court as the inaugural art critic for one of the most influential magazines of the twentieth century. Sally Pemberton draws on personal and archival sources to reconstruct a vivid portrait of a critic whose voice helped define how a generation of readers understood and engaged with contemporary art, from the roaring cultural salons of 1920s New York to the shifting tides of the mid-century avant-garde.\n\nBeyond the biography of a single man, this work illuminates the broader cultural machinery of the American art world during its most formative decades, presenting Murdock Pemberton as both participant and provocateur in a scene teeming with ambition and reinvention. Sally Pemberton writes with the intimacy of a family historian and the rigour of a cultural scholar, carefully situating her subject within the editorial brilliance that made The New Yorker an institution. For anyone captivated by the intersection of journalism, art criticism, and American cultural identity, this portrait raises a compelling question: how much of what we call taste was quietly invented by one man with a typewriter and a press pass?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342760878299,"sku":"9780615524979-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f3f9737d-5f78-446f-a212-abe0c5719dcf.png?v=1790048665","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780615524979-secondhand-portrait-of-murdock-pemberton-the-new-yorkers-first-art-critic","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}