BOOKS by Donald Kuspit

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1	Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries more books like this by Donald B Kuspit add to wishlist This anthology chronicles the distinctive voice of one of America's art critics throughout the last 25 years of the 20th century. Donald Kuspit's reflections on art, artists and art criticism are eclectic, exploring the ways in which art and its criticism influenced 20th-century thought and psychology, investigating the social impact of artwork, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art more books like this by Donald B Kuspit add to wishlist Donald Kuspit offers a radical new interpretation of avant-garde art based on a psychological understanding of it. Avant-garde art, Kuspit suggests, is a response to the modern crowd, which undermines and destroys the sense of self. The artist tries to restore his sense of self through one or more of several techniques: identifying with his medium ... see all copies from $10.97! new only from $12.58! \| first editions
3	The End of Art more books like this by Donald Kuspit add to wishlist In The End of Art, Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by 'postart', a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the banal over the enigmatic, the scatological over the sacred, cleverness over creativity. Tracing the demise of aesthetic experience to the ... see all copies from $6.66! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Painting in the South, 1564-1980 more books like this by Donald B. Kuspit, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, David S. Bundy add to wishlist see all copies from $13.50! first editions
5	The Dialectic of Decadence: Between Advance and Decline in Art more books like this by Donald B Kuspit add to wishlist A study of contradictions in the visual arts from one of America's art critics, this work examines the pivotal conflict between expressionistic art and the pursuit of abstract purity. The moment one side of the dialectic is asserted as dominant, the other immediately rises up to reverse the delicate balance. Through argument and illustrations, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Hunt Slonem: An Art Rich and Strange more books like this by Donald B Kuspit add to wishlist Kuspit's monograph on the 20th century American artist mixes reproductions of the artist's paintings, including Slonem's signature caged bird series, with photographs of his home and studio, offering a glimpse of his career. see all copies from $9.37! new only from $9.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	After Nihilism: Essays on Contemporary Art more books like this by Wilfried Dickhoff, Donald Kuspit (Editor) add to wishlist In After Nihilism, Wilfried Dickhoff examines the art work of Neo Avant-Garde European and American artists, including Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, and Philip Taaffe. Applying Adorno's concept of negative freedom in the autonomous work of art, he demonstrates how the works of these artists, in which the ... see all copies from $7.48! new only from $16.08! \| first editions
8	Health and Happiness in the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Art more books like this by Donald B Kuspit, Lynn Gamwell add to wishlist This book presents a refreshing new approach to avant-garde art by demonstrating that a genuine core of modernism manifests a positive, life-affirming attitude. Donald Kuspit and Lynn Gamwell challenge the assumption that disintegration and negativity provide the most authentic artistic responses to this century's gloomy zeitgeist. Lavishly ... see all copies from $2.39! new only from $4.75! \| first editions
9	Chihuly more books like this by Donald B Kuspit add to wishlist A guide to the work of one of America's great artists in glass. see all copies from $11.42! new only from $51.12! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction more books like this by Joseph Masheck, Donald Kuspit (Editor) add to wishlist Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction is an anthology of essays by noted critic Joseph Masheck. Considering topics in nineteenth and twentieth century architecture, its theory and practice, as well as selected achievements by such great modernists as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn, Masheck also ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Shekhina more books like this by Donald B Kuspit, Leonard Nimoy (Photographer) add to wishlist Shekhina presents the first-ever monograph of Leonard Nimoy, photographer. This exhaustive and eerily beautiful photographic study of the female form reveals Nimoy's intrigue with scriptural mythology and ancient spirituality. see all copies from $14.65! new only from $25.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960 more books like this by Marjorie Welish, Donald Kuspit (Editor) add to wishlist Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 considers the work of a generation of "respondants" to the New York School, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, who reintroduced pictorialism and verbal content in their paintings and assemblages. Their work, Marjorie Welish argues, often alludes to the history of art and culture. ... see all copies from $45.54! new only from $45.54! \| SVS
13	The Widening Circle more books like this by Barry Schwabsky, Donald Kuspit (Editor) add to wishlist In this collection of critical essays, Barry Schwabsky re-examines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of 'high modernism' remain consequential to it, through tensions between representation, abstraction, and pictorial language. Offering close readings of works produced by several generations of European and ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $29.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Don Eddy: The Art of Paradox more books like this by Donald B Kuspit, Kuspit Donald add to wishlist This monograph surveys the career of a leading American realist painter, Don Eddy, covering nearly four decades of his work. The author, Donald Kuspit, traces the artist's evolution from the Super Realist auto bumpers and showrooms and shop windows of the early 1970s; through the technical dazzling of dime store toys, trinkets, pots and pans and ... see all copies from $5.20! new only from $8.96! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist more books like this by Donald B Kuspit add to wishlist The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist examines the philosophical, psychological and aesthetic premises for avant-garde art and its subsequent evolution and corruption in the late twentieth century. Arguing that modernist art is essentially therapeutic in intention, both towards self and society, Donald Kuspit further posits that neo-avant-garde, or ... see all copies from $14.95! new only from $26.50! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Albert Paley: Sculpture more books like this by Donald Kuspit (Editor) add to wishlist The monumental site-specific metal assemblages "Albert Paley" has created over the past three decades place him not only in the forefront of contemporary sculpture but also in the vanguard among artists working in the new, genre-defying area that has been called "Archisculpture." This richly illustrated monograph presents the full spectrum of ... see all copies from $35.00! new only from $50.50! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Surrealist Art and Writing, 1919-1939: The Gold of Time more books like this by Jack J Spector, Donald Kuspit (Editor) add to wishlist Surrealist Art and Writing offers a fresh analysis of Surrealism, the avant-garde movement that, in its search for contemporary lyricism and imagery, united literature and art to politics and psychology. Examining Surrealism's main phases from a variety of perspectives, Jack Spector emphasises the rebellion of the protagonists against their middle ... see all copies from $34.00! new only from $36.22! \| first editions
18	Alex Katz: Night Paintings more books like this by Donald Kuspit, Alex Katz add to wishlist see all copies from $4.36! new only from $67.28! \| first editions
19 view cover	Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object more books like this by Donald B Kuspit add to wishlist The great German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch was a contemporary of Moholy-Nagy and Brecht and a close friend of Hermann Hesse, yet his work is little known in the English-speaking world. Born in Wurzburg in 1897, Renger-Patzsch was a member of the movement that came to be known as Neue Sachlichkeit ("New Objectivity"). His most famous book ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $20.00! \| first editions
20 view cover	Jamali more books like this by Jamali, Donald B Kuspit, Kent Barker (Photographer) add to wishlist Jamali grew up in the ancient crossroads city of Peshawar, near the Khyber Pass in the northwestern Himalayas. At age 13, he was sent to a British military academy from which he was expelled at age 16. He went to live in primitive and austere conditions in the Rajasthan desert for five years, and from there he went to Kafiristan, a tiny valley ... see all copies from $6.70! new only from $21.44! \| first editions
21 view cover	The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980s more books like this by Donald Kuspit add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $35.00! \| first editions
22	Lucas Samaras--Objects and Subjects, 1969-1986 more books like this by Thomas McEvilley, Roberta Smith, Donald B Kuspit add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! new only from $40.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Karel Appel Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonne more books like this by Donald Kuspit, Donald Kupsit add to wishlist This work presents a catalogue raisonne of every work the artist has created from his earliest sculptures of 1947 to his works of the past year. It follows the artist's mental and artistic development, outlining the various threads of his works: the childlike aspects of his art, the role of insanity, the anticipation of death, and his constantly ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $35.00! \| first editions
24 view cover	Dispossession more books like this by Ms. Lynn Stern (Photographer), Donald Kuspit (Introduction by) add to wishlist Starkness, unswerving focus, and cryptic intensity form the essence of Lynn Stern's work. While initially shocking, her skull and deathmask images are mysteriously inviting due to their vibrant luminosity and Stern's powerful identification with her subject. The work is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on mortality. Accompanying the photographs ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions
25 view cover	Hans Van de Bovenkamp more books like this by Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Donald Kuspit, Stephen Larsen (Foreword by) add to wishlist This vivid monograph examines the often surprising and stunning sculpture of Hans Van de Bovenkamp. He is best known for his groundbreaking work in "public sculpture." Never one to be driven by formula, he continues to work with a grace and vision that belies his technical background. Hans Van de Bovenkamp's art covers a myriad of sculptural ... see all copies from $23.09! new only from $31.15! \| first editions

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