Redeeming Art
Critical Reveries
Published on 2. May 2004
352 pages
978-1-62153-201-9 (ISBN)
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In essays culled from three decades of critical writing, Donald Kuspit explores the aesthetic developments of the twentieth century, from post-impressionism to the latest permutation of post-Modernism. Ranging from Willem de Kooning to Andy Warhol to Sue Coe, this provocative anthology chronicles the distinctive voice of a formidable art critic whose reflections on art, artists, and art criticism constitute an eclectic exploration of the ways in which art and art criticism have influenced contemporary thought and psychology. The book's investigation into the social impact of artwork also reflects on the inner life of the artist.
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Donald Kuspit, a professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, is the author of more than twenty books and numerous essays. He has earned fellowships from, among others, the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in New York.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Donald Kuspit: Dialogical Art Criticism in the Era of Administered Art
- Section I: Reflections and Agendas
- FORUM: Art Critic's Grants
- FORUM: Art Students
- Philosophy and Art: Elective Affinities in an Arranged Marriage
- Deadministering Art
- Authoritarian Abstraction
- Authoritarian Aesthetics and the Elusive Alternative
- Vicissitudes of the German Antaeus Complex: Ego Strength through Mother Nature
- The Psychoanalytic Construction of the Artist
- Philobatic and Ocnophilic Eyes
- Art Is Dead
- Long Live Aesthetic Management
- Art at Odds with Itself
- Craft as Art, Art as Craft
- Section II: Philosophical Walks
- Elizabeth Murray's Dandyish Abstraction
- Sue Coe
- The "Madness" of Chicago Art
- Donald Lipski
- Breakfast of Duchampians
- Ana Mendieta, Autonomous Body
- Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper
- Joel Shapiro's Figurative Constructions
- Helmut Federle: Abstract Narcissus and Gnostic
- Pierre Bonnard: Beauty with a Touch of Pathology
- Alex Grey's Mysticism
- Warhol's Catholic Dance with Death
- The North Stripped Bare: Odd Nerdrum's Norwegian Existentialism
- Section III: Selected Interviews
- An Interview with Donald Kuspit
- An Interview with Donald Kuspit
- An Interview with Donald Kuspit-The Art of the 1990s
- An Interview with Donald Kuspit -a Biographical Remark
- Invisible Ink: Art Criticism and a Vanishing Public
- Index
