Books By Dave Hickey - Author

Dave Hickey (1938-2021) was an American art critic and essayist known for his sharp wit and keen eye. In the late sixties, he opened A Clean Well-Lighted Place-an art gallery in Austin named after the short story by Ernest Hemingway-before moving to New York, where he worked as the director of the Reese Palley Gallery. He served as the executive editor for Art in America; staff songwriter at Glaser Publications, in Nashville; and arts editor for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He later served as associate professor of art criticism and theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His writing appeared in publications including Rolling Stone, Harper's, The Village Voice, and Vanity Fair, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues. He received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in 1994 and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2001 for his influential art criticism. His books include The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993) and Air Guitar: Essays