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The Rebirth of Painting in the Late Twentieth Century

by Donald Kuspit

ISBN-10: 9780521662185
ISBN-10: 0-521-66218-4
ISBN-13: 9780521662185
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-66218-5
Hardcover
2000-04-13
Cambridge University Press


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Product Description
The Rebirth of Painting in the Twentieth Century examines the continued validity and variety of painting in the post-modern era. Bringing a psychological perspective to the issues, Donald Kuspit argues that painting remains the premier medium of the visual arts, in terms of its potential for innovation and influence on other modes of art making. Discussing a range of representational and abstract painting in the United States and Europe by artists such as Gregory Amenoff, Vincent Desidiero and Odd Nerdrum, Kuspit also examines works by Picasso, Mondrian, Pollock, Johns, and Soutine, among others, with an eye to reevaluating their art historical significance. This study also includes psychosocial studies of various cultural issues that affect painting, including feminism, and Jewishness.

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Donald Kuspit's work examines the continued validity and variety of painting in the post-modern era. Bringing a psychological perspective to the issues, he argues that painting remains the premiere medium of the visual arts, in terms of its potential for innovation and influence on other modes of art making.

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An artful critic
Kuspit is perhaps the premium art critic of the day. In his book "Cult of the Avant Garde Artist",
Kuspit searches desperately for meaning which he doesn't find outside of decadence. Kuspit
reasons that the art by the 90s has stretched originality so far that there was nothing left but
appropriation and therefore decadence. My opinion is, that Kuspit was having a crisis over
something he must love as he's dedicated his life to it, but didn't understand, which would be
even more frustrating as someone who is suppose to explain it to others.

This confusion can be forgiven for the critic as the modern art era has, in its most defining
moments, been recognized by periods of movements in which classification was made easy in
difference. Kuspit may actually in his confusion represent his own era as an art critic very well.
Of course, I make my assumption with knowledge of his next book "The Rebirth of Painting in
the Twenty First Century." This book nearly contradicts Kuspit's "Cult of the Avant Garde
Artist" in its recognizing of personal transformation through art.

The only fault I find with either book is my own belief that Kuspit in his search for understanding
isolates himself from the one thing that draws him to it.....Mystery, Sensuality, Something that
was made just out of reach but vibrates in ways that are beyond the intellect and can only be felt.

Boggle your mind and read the book. Please, read it only if you`re tough-minded as it may cause

headaches, irritation, and discontent, but don't be alarmed as these are only subconscious author
projections.



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