Other Criteria Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art

Name: Other Criteria Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
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ISBN: 9780226771854

ISBN-10: 0226771857

ISBN-13: 9780226771854

Edition: 2007

Authors: Leo Steinberg

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Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flatbed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The latter, which Francine du Plessix Gray called "a tour de force of critical method," is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of the Johns's work ever written. This edition includes a new preface and a handful of additional illustrations. "The art book of the year, if not of the decade and possibly of the century. . . .The significance of this volume lies not so much in the quality of its insights--although the…

Book details

List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.48" wide x 10.16" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Art historian Leo Steinberg is Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art, Michelangelo's Last Paintings, The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, and Encounters with Rauschenberg.



Preface, 2007


Preface


Acknowledgments



Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public



Jasper Johns: the First Seven Years of His Art



Other Criteria



Picasso's Sleepwatchers



The Skulls of Picasso



The Algerian Women and Picasso At Large



Monet's Water Lilies



Gonzales



Recent Drawings, USA



De Kooning's Woman



Pollock's First Retrospective



Pascin



Torsos and Raoul Hague



Fritz Glarner and Philip Guston at the Modern



Paul Brach's Pictures



The Eye Is a Part of the Mind



Objectivity and the Shrinking Self



Rodin


Notes


List of Illustrations


Index