Revenge of the Philistines, The: Art and Culture, 1972-1984 by Kramer, Hilton
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Kramer, former New York Times art critic, has assembled a collection of his reviews along with a smattering of essays. In his hymn to New York's renovated Museum of Modern Art, he notes that its "formalist outlook tends . . . to lead to a false sense of orthodoxy." Yet these reviews, which rigorously apply his own formalist standards of what constitutes modern art, miss out on much of what is vital and meaningful in today's highly variegated art scene. Kramer is appalled by political art, most of which, he argues, lacks artistic merit; he doubts whether any great art can be political. In surveying the '80s' rebirth of realism, he reassures us that many new realists are not antimodernist or antiabstractionist. One piece agonizes over whether Saul Steinberg should be considered an artist. A somewhat condescending essay on Max Ernst sets him above the "muddled narcissism" said to mar many other surrealists. Other subjects range from Rodin to Walker Evans; selections were culled from the New York Times, New Criterion (which Kramer edits), Commentary and elsewhere. October 25
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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I don't don't if i agree with these opinions but i thought you all might to know a little more about the topics and people discussed. I. Revivals and revisionism Andre Meyer Galleries at the Met A Turner for the eighties Age of Revolution I & II Landseer : the Victorian paragon [Sir Edwin] The Natural Paradies Isolation of Thomas Eakins Gorky revised [Maxim] Rediscovering Stanley Spencer The Return of the Nativist : Grant Wood II. Modernist in retrospect - Europeans Late Cezanne [Paul] ; the public and the private Rodin [Auguste] ; Picasso's rage [Pablo Picasso] ; Essential cubism in London; Bonnard [Pierre] ; De Stijl; Vantongerloo [Georges] ; Max Ernst; Miro and his critics [Jean] ; Sonia Delaunay; Giacometti's moral heroism [Alberto Giacometti] Americans: Marsden Harley; Florine Stettheimer; Elie Nadelman; Edward Hopper; Morton L. Schamberg; Precisionism revised; Morris Kantor; Abstract expressionism : the formative years; the Rothko Retrospective; the singularity of Clyfford Still III. Contemporary art: the Anatomy of Pluralism Fairfield Porter ; Noguchi ; Encountering Nevelson ; Jacob Lawrence's Chronicles of Black history Pousette-Dart : odd man out Richard Lindner, artist of two worlds; Saul Steinberg Romair Bearden ; Helen Frankenthaler in the fifties Morris Louis; Kenneth Noland ; Frank Stella, renewing abstraction Agnes Martin; Anthony Caro at MoMa Christopher Wilmarth The transformations of Lucas Samaras ; Richart Diebenkorn; Chuck Close Pearlstein's Portraits ; Kitaj, the vision of an expatriate Maurice Sendak ; David Hockney Social realism of Jack Beal Milet Andrejevic Roy Lichtenstein in the seventies; Robert Smithson IV. The prose and poetry of photography Fox Talbot and the invention of photography Muybridge, the Stanford years Young Steichen Imogen Cunningham and Minor White Ansel Adams, trophies from Eden Walker Evans Notes on Irving Penn ; Avedon ; The new American photography V. Critics and controversies Tom Wolfe and the revenge of the philistines The Apples of Meyer Shapiro Fairfield Porter as critic Stanford Schwartz Hoving Era at the Met [Metropolitan Museum of Art] On the failure of museums Reproduction for the plebes Criticism endowed VI. Art for the eighties The new scene Jackie Winsor ; Neil Jenney ; Charles Simonds The return of the realists Signs of passion : the new expressionism Malcolm Morley ; Julian Schnabel Turning back the clock : art and politics in 1984 MoMA reopened : the Museum of Modern Art in the Postmodern era
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