Stop reading about the painting. Look at the painting. And if you cannot do that, at least read Wolfe’s polemic in a format that lets you argue with every single glorious, arrogant, brilliant word.
: Modern art theory is famously dense. You can add a glossary or hover-text for Wolfe’s "zany neologisms" and the critics' academic "isms" (e.g., Post-Painterly Abstraction) to show how they were used to "disintegrate" traditional art. The "Boho Dance" Timeline tom wolfe the painted word pdf better
Why "better"? Why the insistence on the PDF format? Stop reading about the painting
: Create a layout where Wolfe’s satirical descriptions of "flatness" or "action painting" sit next to high-resolution images of the specific works he mocks, such as those by Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning Jasper Johns The "Cultureburg" Map : Modern art theory is famously dense