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Informationen zum Autor Donald Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics. Winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism, given by the College Art Association, he is a Contributing Editor to Artforum, Sculpture, New Art Examiner, and Tema Celeste magazines, as well as Editor of Art Criticism. Professor of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, he also holds honorary degrees from Davidson College, the San Francisco Institute of Arts, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he has been the A. D. White Professor–at-Large at Cornell University. Dr Kuspit has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author and editor of hundreds of articles and books, most recently The Rebirth of Painting in the Late 20th Century and Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art. Klappentext In The End of Art, Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Zusammenfassung In The End of Art! Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. In reaction to the emptiness and stagnancy of postart! Kuspit signals the aesthetic and human future that lies with the New Old Masters. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The changing of the art guard; 2. The aesthetic maligned: Duchamp and Newman; 3. Seminal entropy: the paradox of modern art; 4. The decline of the cult of the unconscious: running on empty; 5. Mirror, mirror of the worldly wall, why is art no longer the truest religion of all?: the god that lost faith in itself; Postscript. Abandoning and rebuilding the studio.
