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Dialectical Conversions
Few art critics in Western art history have ever had the broad-ranging impact over several decades of Donald Kuspit, a philosopher and psychoanalyst who from 1970 until the present has been a commanding figure on the international stage. A student of German thinker Theodor Adorno under whom he earned the first of his three doctorates, Kuspit introduced a new type of philosophical art criticism into the art world. He drew on both phenomenology and Critical Theory before he then increasingly adopted psychoanalysis. Since Kuspit himself has always measured his own place in the history of art criticism by how rigorously he engages with competing approaches, this book is a searching survey of Kus...
The End of Art
Donald Kuspit argues here that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by "postart," a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the banal over the enigmatic, the scatological over the sacred, cleverness over creativity. Tracing the demise of aesthetic experience to the works and theory of Marcel Duchamp and Barnett Newman, Kuspit argues that devaluation is inseparable from the entropic character of modern art, and that anti-aesthetic postmodern art is in its final state. In contrast to modern art, which expressed the universal human unconscious, postmodern art degenerates into an expression of narrow ideological interests. In reaction to the emptiness and stagnancy of postart, Kuspit signals the aesthetic and human future that lies with the old masters. The End of Art points the way to the future for the visual arts. Donald Kuspit is Professor of Art History at SUNY Stony Brook. A winner of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism, Professor Kuspit is a Contributing Editor at Artforum, Sculpture and New Art Examiner. His most recent book is The Cult of the Avant-Garde (Cambridge, 1994).
Idiosyncratic Identities
A collection of essays on idiosyncratic art.
Clement Greenberg, Art Critic
Clement Greenberg, the father of modern American art criticism, has always been a controversial figure among art critics and historians. Although the American artists of the 1940s that he singled out for attention have since achieved international recognition as the first generation of abstract expressionists, the "modernist" theory of criticism by which Greenberg justified his taste and specified the significance of such artists has often provoked hostile comment. Donald Kuspit's book is the first to examine the totality of Greenberg's position, showing both its value and its incompleteness.--Book jacket.
The New Subjectivism
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David Bierk
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Reflections of Nature
Sun-dappled carp, radiant blossoms, and tumultuous waters are among the wonders and mysteries of nature captured in Joseph Raffael's brilliant close-up paintings.
Don Eddy
Author Donald Kuspit calls Eddy a spiritual realist, acknowledging his work's peculiar mysteriousness, its enigmatic intensity. This beautiful monograph surveys the career of Eddy, a leading American realist painter, covering nearly four decades of his work. 93 colour illustrations
