Other Criteria
Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Published:11th Dec '07
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Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flat-bed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The last, which Francine du Plessix Gray called "a tour de force of critical method," is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of Johns' work ever written. This edition includes a new preface and a handful of additional illustrations.
"The art book of the year, if not of the decade and possibly of the century.... The significance of this volume lies not so much in the quality of its insights - although the quality is very high and the insights are important - as in the richness, precision, and elegance of its style.... A meeting with the mind of Leo Steinberg is one of the most enlightening experiences that contemporary criticism affords." - Alfred Frankenstein, Art News "Not only one of the most lucid and independent minds among art critics, but a profound one." - Robert Motherwell "These essays are... part of the reality of contemporary art, and the book is a cultural event in its own right... a force in the spirit of our times." - Arthur C. Danto, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"
ISBN: 9780226771854
Dimensions: 26mm x 19mm x 3mm
Weight: 992g
448 pages