Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive,
courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the
founder and co-editor (with Roger Kimball) of "The New Criterion."
This comprehensive book collects a sizable selection of his early
essays and reviews published in "Artforum," "Commentary," "Arts
Magazine," "The New York Review of Books," and "The Times," and
thus constituted his first complete statement about art and the art
world.
The principal focus is on the artists and movements of the last
hundred years: the Age of the Avant-Garde that begins in the
nineteenth century with Realism and Impressionism. Most of the
major artists of this rich period, from Monet and Degas to Jackson
Pollock and Claes Oldenburg, are discussed and often drastically
revaluated. A brilliant introductory essay traces the rise and fall
of the avant-garde as a historical phenomenon, and examines some of
the cultural problems which the collapse of the avant-garde poses
for the future of art. In addition, there are chapters on art
critics, museums, the relation of avant-garde art to radical
politics, and on the growth of photography as a fine art.
This collection is not intended to be the last word on one of
the greatest as well as one of the most complex periods in the
history of the artistic imagination. The essays and reviews
gathered here were written in response to particular occasions and
for specific deadlines--in the conviction that a start in the
arduous task of critical revaluation needed to be made, not because
a critical theory prescribed it but because our experience
compelled it
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