About the Author ii
Preface ix
Part I. Art & Pseudo Art
Robert Payne: Uncommon Guide to the World of Art 3
Valentin Who?-A Neglected French Master 21
Victorian Treasures: Paintings from the McCormick Collection 26
Anna Hyatt [Huntington]'s Joan of Arc 33
R. H. Ives Gammell 36
Understanding and Appreciating Art 41
Two Exhibitions Worth Praising 54
Today's "Public Art": Rarely Public, Rarely Art 57
"Public Art" for Whom? 67
Picasso's Sculpture: Much Ado about Very Little 70
What's Wrong with Today's Protest Art? 73
Cy Twombly in Mr. Morgan's House? 78
Folded Paper and Other Modern "Drawings" 80
Bill Viola's Passions-No Kinship to Rubens 83
The Apotheosis of Andy Warhol 86
Fake Art-the Rauschenberg Phenomenon 89
Old and New Art-Continuity vs. Rupture 93
Contemporary Art Worth Knowing 97
Dismaying Exhibition of De Waal Installations at the Frick 101
Commemorating Andrew Wyeth 105
Part II. Abstract Art
Kandinsky and His Progeny 117
Hilton Kramer's Misreading of Abstract Art 121
Has the Artworld Been Kidding Itself about Abstract Art? 129
Abstract Art Is an Absurd Inversion of American Values 133
Jousting with Mark Rothko's Son 135
Part III. Art Education
Where's the Art in Today's Art Education? 143
Rescuing Art from Visual Culture Studies 152
Why Teach Art? Reflections on Efland's Art and Cognition 165
The Hijacking of Art Education 179
The Great Divide in Art Education 194
Museum Miseducation: Perpetuating the Duchamp Myth 207
How NOT to Be an Arts Advocate 210
Understanding Contemporary Art 214
How Not to Teach Art History 229
The Truth about Pop Art 233
Barking Up the Wrong Trees in Art Education 237
Art Education or Miseducation? From Koons to Herring 241
Part IV. Art Theory
Art and Cognition: Mimesis vs. the Avant Garde 253
Modernism, Postmodernism, or Neither? A Fresh Look at "Fine Art" 263
The Undefining of Art and Its Consequences 280
The Art of Critical Spinning 294
Why Discarding the Concept of "Fine Art" Has Been a Grave Error 299
Notes 317
