TY - BOOK AU - Kuspit,Donald B. TI - Redeeming art: critical reveries T2 - Aesthetics today SN - 1581150555 AV - N6490 .K876 2000 U1 - 709.04 21 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Allworth Press KW - Art, Modern KW - 20th century KW - Themes, motives KW - Aesthetics, Modern KW - Postmodernism KW - Art criticism KW - United States KW - Art, American N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 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 --; Section III; 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 ER -