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From Publishers Weekly
This seems to be a period of stocktaking by neoconservatives, for Kramer's collection of essays and reviews comes on the heels of Norman Podhoretz's Ex-Friends. The two authors share many attitudes, having both evolved from radical leftists in their early years to vociferous critics of what they see as today's totalitarian dominance of American political and cultural thought by the left. But Podhoretz's book was freshly written and observed, while Kramer's is basically a collection of book reviews and essays, most of them written during the past dozen years. While Podhoretz is essentially retired, Kramer continues to enjoy a journalistic pulpit with his weekly pieces of art criticism in the New York Observer. He takes a lot of expected swipes here, usually employing as his base a biography of the subject under discussion: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Susan Sontag, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kenneth Tynan. He blames Saul Bellow for not being sufficiently vigorous in responding to the PC attacks leveled against him, and has interesting observations on the permutations through which journals like Partisan Review and the New Republic have passed. There are thoughtful and revealing essays on two major art critics, Kramer's mentor Clement Greenberg and Meyer Schapiro, and on the mysterious Whittaker Chambers (whose now largely forgotten Witness Kramer describes as "one of the best books ever written about the Communist experience in America"). Readers will find this to be a lively collection, whether or not they adhere to Kramer's stern view of recent intellectual history.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Kramer, former art critic for the New York Times and founding editor of the New Criterion, here collects essays from the latter as well as from Commentary, the Atlantic Monthly, and others. Many of the essays are updated to include Kramer's current reflections on the events and personalities he discusses. Taking postwar "intellectualism" and its effect on American culture as his theme, Kramer focuses on the "intellectuals" themselves more than on the events surrounding them. Though many of the personalities have faded from the popular imagination (Josephine Herbst, Nora Sayre), others remain alive in popular or academic milieus (Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy). Kramer also includes interesting essays on Clement Greenberg, Meyer Shapiro, and Lincoln Kirstein. For a more focused view of Kramer's take on the visual arts, see his Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century (LJ 3/1/95). Though for this reviewer's taste, Kramer finds a few too many Stalinists in the American cultural hierarchy, this is a recommended purchase for most collections.AMartin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, DC
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This seems to be a period of stocktaking by neoconservatives, for Kramer's collection of essays and reviews comes on the heels of Norman Podhoretz's Ex-Friends. The two authors share many attitudes, having both evolved from radical leftists in their early years to vociferous critics of what they see as today's totalitarian dominance of American political and cultural thought by the left. But Podhoretz's book was freshly written and observed, while Kramer's is basically a collection of book reviews and essays, most of them written during the past dozen years. While Podhoretz is essentially retired, Kramer continues to enjoy a journalistic pulpit with his weekly pieces of art criticism in the New York Observer. He takes a lot of expected swipes here, usually employing as his base a biography of the subject under discussion: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Susan Sontag, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kenneth Tynan. He blames Saul Bellow for not being sufficiently vigorous in responding to the PC attacks leveled against him, and has interesting observations on the permutations through which journals like Partisan Review and the New Republic have passed. There are thoughtful and revealing essays on two major art critics, Kramer's mentor Clement Greenberg and Meyer Schapiro, and on the mysterious Whittaker Chambers (whose now largely forgotten Witness Kramer describes as "one of the best books ever written about the Communist experience in America"). Readers will find this to be a lively collection, whether or not they adhere to Kramer's stern view of recent intellectual history.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Kramer, former art critic for the New York Times and founding editor of the New Criterion, here collects essays from the latter as well as from Commentary, the Atlantic Monthly, and others. Many of the essays are updated to include Kramer's current reflections on the events and personalities he discusses. Taking postwar "intellectualism" and its effect on American culture as his theme, Kramer focuses on the "intellectuals" themselves more than on the events surrounding them. Though many of the personalities have faded from the popular imagination (Josephine Herbst, Nora Sayre), others remain alive in popular or academic milieus (Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy). Kramer also includes interesting essays on Clement Greenberg, Meyer Shapiro, and Lincoln Kirstein. For a more focused view of Kramer's take on the visual arts, see his Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century (LJ 3/1/95). Though for this reviewer's taste, Kramer finds a few too many Stalinists in the American cultural hierarchy, this is a recommended purchase for most collections.AMartin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, DC
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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