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Donald Kuspit argues here that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by "postart," a term invented by Alan Kapro...
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Critical Reveries
In essays culled from three decades of critical writing, Donald Kuspit explores the aesthetic developments of the twentieth century, from post-impress...
Starkness, unswerving focus, and cryptic intensity form the essence of Lynn Stern's work. While initially shocking, her skull and deathmask images are...
The Self-portraits of Lucas Samaras
The Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry and the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic opens in Autumn 2003. From its striking stainle...
Donald Kuspit offers here an innovative psychoanalytic interpretation of avant-garde art, from its origins in the nineteenth century to its demise in ...
This book presents a refreshing new approach to avant-garde art by demonstrating that a genuine core of modernism manifests a positive, life-affirming...
The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist examines the philosophical, psychological and aesthetic premises for avant-garde art and its subsequent evolution a...
The Art of Paradox
Author Donald Kuspit calls Eddy a spiritual realist, acknowledging his work's peculiar mysteriousness, its enigmatic intensity. This beautiful monogra...
Christian Boltanski came to prominence in the 1980s with major exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in 1984 and the Whitechapel Gallery, ...
This long-overdue monograph relates the fascinating story of the son of great surrealist, master Max Ernst and a Jewish mother killed in the Holocaust...
Between Advance and Decline in Art
Kuspit demonstrates that the "decadent" pursuits of artists like Sandro Chia and Georg Baselitz are rooted in the avant-garde unconscious. He demonstr...
* Investigates the manifestation of decadence through art* Includes works by Fรฉlicien Rops, Erwin Olaf, Jan Fabre, Man Ray, Marc Lagrange, Kees van D...
The Seven Laughters of God and Other Paintings, January 5-February 25, 2006
The Intentionality of Art
rare paintings
Catalogue for a travelling exhibition organized by SEACEX. Essays by Carlos Delgado and Donald Kuspit....
Sleep, Napalm, Night Sky
This vivid monograph examines the often surprising and stunning sculpture of Hans Van de Bovenkamp. He is best known for his groundbreaking work in pu...
Essay by Donald Kuspit The first monograph by famed actor and director Leonard Nimoy, this eerily beautiful photographic study of the female form reve...
Art in the 1980s
Paintings
Death and the Maiden : Paintings 2001-2004
This book assembles twenty years of work in dramatic color photographs, a magnificent mid-career survey of a remarkable sculptor who turns nature into...
Art and Mathematics : in Search of the Sublime
A collection of three essays and one interview on the works of mathematical muralist Bernar Venet....
A Painting by Adam Miller
The 2017 painting Quebec by Adam Miller represents over four hundred years of Quebec history. Featuring recognizable Quebec and Canadian politicians, ...
The Art of Sohan Qadri
Chiefly paintings; contains three articles by different authors....
Carol Kreeger Davidson, a Retrospective
The George R. Stroemple Collection
'As Marcel Duchamp said, 'the creation of art restlessly oscillates between two poles: the artist and the spectator', ' writes Donald Kuspit in his in...
Night Paintings
First edition originally published in 1997; second edition originally published in 1998 by Portland Press, Seattle....
Shadow to Light : Paintings, 1942-1982
Ordinary, Extraordinary, a Summation, 1977-1984
Joy Before the Object
Photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch Preface by Weston Naef Essay by Donald Kuspit Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object is the first major pub...
Paintings : January 8-February 7, 2004
January 8 - February 7, 2004...
Volume 2, 1997-Present
Follow-up to the original monograph published in 1997, covering the years 1968-1996....