Art in Its Own Terms Selected Criticism 1935-1975 by Fairfield Porter

Name: Art in Its Own Terms Selected Criticism 1935-1975 by Fairfield Porter
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ISBN: 9780878467433

ISBN-10: 0878467432

ISBN-13: 9780878467433

Edition: 2008

Authors: Rackstraw Downes, Rackstraw Downes

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According to the American poet John Ashbery, "To read Fairfield Porter is to rediscover art through the eyes of someone whose intuitive love and understanding of it has been matched by few contemporaries," while fellow New York School poet Barbara Guest wrote, "Blunt, intuitive, scholarly, inspired--I believe no other critic has so tackled the meaning of twentieth century art, has tightened our vision of it." Known as one of America's finest and most influential painters, Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) was also a prolific and highly insightful art critic. His writing not only reflects the independent, original mind that presided over his own visual works, but also covers an extraordinary…

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List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publication date: 12/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Plates


Introduction


Contemporary Artists


Willem de Kooning


Richard Stankiewicz


Giacometti


The Education of Jasper Johns


Joseph Cornell


Contemporary Styles


American Non-Objective Painting


New Images of Man


Happenings


Abstraction in Sculpture


Constructivism


Recent American Figure Painting


Art, Nature, and Reality


Perfection and Nature


The Immediacy of Experience


Intellect and Comedy


Reality and the Museum


What Is Real?


A Realist


Non-Objectivity and Realism


Kinds of Beauty


Realism Transcends System


Against Idealism


Tradition and Other Topics


Abstract Expressionism and Landscape


Impressionism and Painting To-Day


The Oriental in American Art


Taste and Energy


Tradition and Originality


Attitudes to the Past


Tradition and Revolt


California and New York


Sculpture and the Material


Humor in Sculpture


Art and Rubbish


Is Photography an Art?


Communication and Moral Commitment


Experiencing Art


The Past Today


Cezanne


Whistler, Morisot, Corinth


France and America in the Nineteenth Century


Italy and France in the Renaissance


Restoration


The Short Review


The Short Review


Vuillard, Bonnard


Rodin, Matisse


Dufy, Pougny, Berend


Two Primitives


Dubuffet, Klee


Inness, O'Keeffe


De Kooning


Leslie, Ferren, Schueler


Hartl


Freilicher, Kahn


Noguchi, Armitage, Kohn


Lichtenstein


From the Short Reviews


Portraits of Americans


Homer


Sargent


Prendergast


Marin


Graham


Books and Critics


Poets and Painters in Collaboration


Rhys Carpenter on Greek Sculpture


Alberti and Leonardo on Painting


Selden Rodman's Apology for Art


Clement Greenberg on "American-type" Painting: A Letter to the Partisan Review


Rosenberg and Hess on de Kooning


Wyndham Lewis on Picasso: A Letter to the Kenyon Review


Art and Politics


Murals for Workers


The Purpose of Socialism


Class Content in American Abstract Painting


Art and Science


Art and Knowledge


Art and Scientific Method


Albert York


Technology and Artistic Perception


Two Statements


Index