Dave Hickey (1940–2021)

Author of Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy

64+ Works 1,147 Members 18 Reviews 1 Favorited

About the Author

Dave Hickey has written for most major American cultural publications. Formerly Executive Editor for Art in America, Hickey's publications include Prior Convictions (1989), The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993), and Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (1997). Hickey received the show more Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1994. He is currently Associate Professor of Art Criticism and Theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas 010. show less

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Works by Dave Hickey

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Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (1997) — Author — 434 copies, 8 reviews

The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded (2009) — Author — 97 copies, 1 review

The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993) — Author — 91 copies, 3 reviews

Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating (2007) 40 copies

Dave Hickey: Pirates and Farmers: Essays on Taste (2013) 38 copies

Between Artists (1996) 29 copies

Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism (2001) 28 copies

25 Women: Essays on Their Art (2015) 28 copies

Robert Gober: Dia Center for the Arts, September 24-1992-June 20, 1993 (1993) 27 copies, 2 reviews

Josiah McElheny (1998) 19 copies

Sarah Charlesworth: A Retrospective (1998) 19 copies

Roy Lichtenstein: Brushstrokes, Four Decades (2002) 19 copies

Perfect Wave: More Essays on Art and Democracy (2017) 19 copies

Vernon Fisher (1989) 17 copies, 1 review

Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970 (2010) 17 copies

Stardumb (2000) 17 copies

Bridget Riley (2019) 16 copies, 1 review

Light in Architecture and Art : The Work of Dan Flavin (2002) 15 copies

Joan Mitchell: Sunflowers (2009) 15 copies

The Collections of Barbara Bloom (2008) 15 copies

Post-Hypnotic (1999) 12 copies

Ed Ruscha: New Paintings And A Retrospective Of Works On Paper (1998) 11 copies

Terry Allen (2010) 10 copies

ED RUSCHA/RAYMOND PETTIBON: THE HOLY BIBLE & THE END. (2006) 9 copies, 1 review

Teresita Fernandez: Blind Landscape (2010) 8 copies

Prior Convictions: Stories from the Sixties (Southwest Life & Letters) (1989) 7 copies

The Book on Vegas (2006) 7 copies

Roy Lichtenstein: Modern Paintings (2010) 7 copies

Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland (2007) 6 copies

Frederick Hammersley: Icons of the Other (2007) 5 copies

ED RUSCHA: METRO PLOTS (1998) 5 copies

Ed Ruscha : new paintings and drawings (1990) 4 copies

New Paintings (2002) 4 copies

Gary Hume: Yardwork (2010) 4 copies

Dust Bunnies: Dave Hickey's Online Aphorisms (2016) 4 copies

Wasted Words: The Essential Dave Hickey Online Compliation (2016) 4 copies

Gary Hume: Flashback (2012) 3 copies

Liberace: A Rhinestone As Big As the Ritz (2005) 3 copies

Michael Reafsnyder (2015) 3 copies

George Herms: The River Book (2014) 2 copies

Dance the Line: Paintings by Karl Benjamin 2 copies

Atelier Van Lieshout: A Supplement (1999) 2 copies

Jack Hallberg (2007) 2 copies

New Texas Art 2 copies

Pasadena Armory Show (1989) 2 copies

Feint of Heart: Art Writings, 1982-2002 (2024) 1 copy

Gordon Moore 1 copy

Las Vegas Diaspora 1 copy

Dance The Line Paintings by Karl Benjamin September 29 - December 2007 Louis Stern Fine Arts 1 copy, 1 review

A New Literary History of America 1 copy

Andy Warhol : Four Marilyns, 1962 1 copy

Ken Price New Work 1 copy

Karen Carson : but enough about me (1996) 1 copy

Perfect Wave (2018) 1 copy

Richard Serra: Arc Of the Curve 1 copy

Ultralounge (1998) 1 copy

Albert Contreras (2013) 1 copy

LUIS JIMENEZ 1 copy

BYARS 1993 James Lee (piccolo), James Lee Byars, Works from the Sixties 1 copy

Buk #26, Expedition to Dreamland (2009) 1 copy

ARTPIX 2: Ultralounge and Color Fields (1999) 1 copy

Structures 1962-2003 (2003) 1 copy

The last seduction : a welcome surrender to beauty 1 copy

James Lee Byars: Early Works and The Angels 1 copy

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Associated Works

Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present (2000) — Contributor — 146 copies

Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue--Paintings and Studies, 1958-1965 (2003) — Contributor — 42 copies

Last Chance For Eden (1995) — Foreword — 33 copies

South by Southwest: 24 Stories from Modern Texas (1986) — Contributor — 10 copies

Magic Hour, The: The Convergence of Art and Las Vegas (2002) 8 copies

Silence, Please!: Stories After the Works of Juan Munoz (1996) — Contributor — 8 copies

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Canonical name: Hickey, Dave
Legal name: Hickey, David Charles
Birthdate: 1940-12-05
Date of death: 2021-11-12
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Place of death: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Cause of death: heart disease
Places of residence: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Education: Texas Christian University (BA|1961)
University of Texas (MA|1963)
Occupations: art critic
professor
Relationships: Lumpkin, Libby (spouse)
Organizations: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of New Mexico
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Awards and honors: Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (1994)
MacArthur Fellowship (2001)
Nevada Writers Hall of Fame (2003)
Peabody Award (2006)

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Reviews

The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty by Dave Hickey

This is my favourite book. Period. All of human behaviour is described in these pages.

Plus, we learn that Art is not necessarily good for you; that the well-being benifits of Art is a Myth cooked up by Institutions of the Pharmacological Arts, like the LACMA and the Getty, et al...

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beaudaignault | 2 other reviews | Jul 14, 2024 |

The Holy Bible and THE END by Ed Ruscha: Raymond Pettibon; Ed Hamilton; Dave Hickey

Published in conjunction with exhibition at the Pomona College Museum of Art, January 22 – April 19, 2006 Curated by Rebecca McGrew. Essays by Ed Hamilton and Dave Hickey. .

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