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1	The End of Art more books like this by Donald B Kuspit 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 Art has been replaced by 'postart', a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the banal over the enigmatic, the scatological over the sacred, cleverness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 $7.00! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries more books like this by Donald B Kuspit 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 $2.47! new only from $4.48! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Shekhina more books like this by Donald B Kuspit, Leonard Nimoy (Photographer) 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 $5.22! new only from $20.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Chihuly more books like this by Donald B Kuspit Chihuly is the most comprehensive book about Dale Chihuly's work to date--a perfect volume for readers interested in surveying this prolific career. More than 300 illustrations, including 248 color plates, create a virtual gallery of Chihuly's work. The book's broad selection of exhibitions, accompanied by lists of architectural installations and ... see all copies from $13.86! new only from $45.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Anthony Quinn's Eye: A Lifetime of Creating and Collecting Art more books like this by Donald B Kuspit IN THE SUMPTUOUS PAGES of "Anthony Quinn's Eye, "one encounters the world of one of the most interesting men of our time," writes poet and novelist Jay Parini. As an artist, Quinn was versatile, deft, and prolific--tirelessly sketching, painting, and sculpting to give form to an insistent inner vision. As a collector, his enthusiasm for cultural ... see all copies from $17.66! new only from $17.66!
6	Chihuly: The George R. Stroemple Collection more books like this by Donald B Kuspit, Kathryn Kanjo 'As Marcel Duchamp said, 'the creation of art restlessly oscillates between two poles: the artist and the spectator',' writes Donald Kuspit in his insightful essay, 'Chihuly and Stroemple: A Meeting of Imaginations'. He suggests that 'the collector is the ideal spectator.' For Dale Chihuly, George R. Stroemple, may be the ultimate 'ideal spectator ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $54.95! \| first editions
7	Painting in the South, 1564-1980 more books like this by Donald B. Kuspit, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, David S. Bundy see all copies from $1.99! first editions
8	Odd Nerdrum: Paintings more books like this by Odd Nerdrum, Jan-Erik Ebbestad Hansen (Text by), Donald B Kuspit (Foreword by) see all copies from $21.17! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
9	The Dialectic of Decadence: Between Advance and Decline in Art more books like this by Donald B Kuspit 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 $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Health and Happiness in the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Art more books like this by Donald B Kuspit, Lynn Gamwell 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 $4.75! new only from $4.75! \| first editions
11	Karel Appel Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonne more books like this by Donald Kuspit, Donald Kupsit 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 $24.00! new only from $32.50! \| first editions
12 view cover	Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art more books like this by Donald B Kuspit 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 $8.78! new only from $17.98! \| first editions
13 view cover	Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object more books like this by Donald B Kuspit 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 $12.00! new only from $19.99! \| first editions
14 view cover	Hunt Slonem: An Art Rich and Strange more books like this by Donald B Kuspit 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 $13.73! new only from $13.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Jamali more books like this by Jamali, Donald B Kuspit, Kent Barker (Photographer) 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 $9.48! new only from $46.08! \| first editions
16 view cover	Don Eddy: The Art of Paradox more books like this by Donald B Kuspit, Kuspit Donald 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 $5.56! new only from $10.31! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist more books like this by Donald B Kuspit 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 $7.20! new only from $25.90! \| SVS
18 view cover	The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980s more books like this by Donald B Kuspit see all copies from $4.69! new only from $45.00! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Widening Circle: The Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art more books like this by Barry Schwabsky, Donald Kuspit (Editor) In this collection of critical essays, Barry Schwabsky reexamines 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 $20.99! new only from $53.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Majorie Strider: Dramatic Gestures more books like this by Raphael Rubinstein, Donald B Kuspit This book presents the work of artist Marjorie Strider. see all copies from $7.80! new only from $22.60!
21 view cover	Daniel Brush Gold Without Boundaries more books like this by Ralph Esmerian, David Bennett, Donald B Kuspit A collection of 200 reproductions of artwork by Daniel Brush, along with essays. Brush, a New York-based artist who draws, paints, sculpts, and creates unique and intricate pieces of jewelry and other small objects, was the subject of a 1998 exhibition, also called "Gold Without Boundaries". see all copies from $26.00! new only from $359.95! \| first editions
22	Animus more books like this by Lynn Stern, Donald B. Kuspit Lynn Stern's haunting new book Animus -- her third monograph -- is a full-scale immersion in the dark night of the soul. Continuing her ten-year involvement with skull imagery, she portrays the restlessly changing shape of an ambiguous animal/human skull and transforms it into a luminous force -- sometimes vicious, sometimes benign, but always ... see all copies from $5.16! new only from $40.00! \| first editions
23	Lucas Samaras--Objects and Subjects, 1969-1986 more books like this by Thomas McEvilley, Roberta Smith, Donald B Kuspit see all copies from $15.97! first editions
24 view cover	Reflections of Nature: Paintings by Joseph Raffael more books like this by Amei Wallach, Donald B Kuspit Sun-dappled carp, radiant blossoms, and tumultuous waters are among the wonders and mysteries of nature captured in Joseph Raffael's brilliant close-up paintings. Joseph Raffael has taken what some would consider the highly radical step of dating to paint beautiful pictures at a time when beauty is much out of favor in the art world. Long one of ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $31.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	Eric Fischl-3 more books like this by Elizabeth Avedon, Donald B Kuspit (Editor), Eric Fischl see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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