The classic critical text by Tom Wolfe. "From the fuliginous flatness of the fifties to the pop op minimal sixties, right on through the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't seventies, Tom Wolfe debunks the great American myth of modern art in an incandescent, hilarious and devastating blast. The Painted Word is scandalous!" -- from back wrapper. Printed in black-and-white.