Redeeming art : critical reveries /
Donald Kuspit.
- xxxii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Aesthetics today .
- Aesthetics today. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Donald Kuspit: Dialogical Art Criticism in the Era of Administered Art -- 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 -- 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 Mannerist -- 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 -- Selected Interviews -- Interview with Suzanne Ramljak -- Interview with Barbara Bennish -- Interview with Mark Van Proyen -- Interview with Mark Van Proyen -- Invisible Ink: Art Criticism and a Vanishing Public. Section I. Section II. Section III.
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Art, Modern--Themes, motives--20th century Aesthetics, Modern--20th century Postmodernism. Art criticism--United States Art, American Art, American--20th century