Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States

This study is an analysis of the high point and subsequent decline of modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s. Through a close reading of a selection of key critics of the period, the book examines the ways that modernist criticism's discourse remains of especial disciplinary interest.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Clement Greenberg: ‘A Critic on the Side of History’ 2. ‘Restoring Modernism to Health’: Michael Fried 3. Rosalind Krauss: ‘A Broader Modernist Sensibility’ 4. ‘A Rigorous Dialectic of Seeing and Reading’: Annette Michelson 5. Harold Rosenberg: Action, Criticism, and History 6. ‘My Secret Life’: Leo Steinberg 7. Lawrence Alloway and the Complex Present Conclusion

About the author

Stephen Moonie is Lecturer in Art History in the Department of Fine Art, Newcastle University.

Summary

This study is an analysis of the high point and subsequent decline of modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s. Through a close reading of a selection of key critics of the period, the book examines the ways that modernist criticism’s discourse remains of especial disciplinary interest.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Moonie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780367565411
• ISBN: 978-0-367-56541-1
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; USA, Theory of art, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, c 1960 to c 1970, United States of America, USA, c 1960 to c 1969