Pirates and farmers : essays on taste

Dave Hickey has assembled a collection of searing essays that challenge the critics cultural status quo. Hickey
recently announced his retirement from the field of criticism due to the new extreme popularity, oversimplification and commoditization of art: 'I miss being an elitist and not having to talk to idiots.'
He focuses this new collection of writings on cultural phenomena such as the super collector, the trope of the biennale, the loss of looking and more.