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The Age of the Avant-garde - 1956-1972 (Hardcover)
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The Age of the Avant-garde - 1956-1972 (Hardcover)
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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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