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Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
Leo Steinberg
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Description for Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
Paperback. Comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flat-bed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. Num Pages: 448 pages, 295 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 184 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1036.
Leo Steinberg's classic Other Criteria comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public and the flat-bed picture plane to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The last, which Francine du Plessix Gray called a tour de force of critical method, is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of Johns' work ever written. This edition includes a new preface and a handful of additional illustrations.
Leo Steinberg's classic Other Criteria comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public and the flat-bed picture plane to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The last, which Francine du Plessix Gray called a tour de force of critical method, is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of Johns' work ever written. This edition includes a new preface and a handful of additional illustrations.
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
1035g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226771854
SKU
V9780226771854
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99-1
About Leo Steinberg
Leo Steinberg is the Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion and Encounters with Rauschenberg, both published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as Michelangelo's Last Paintings and Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper.
Reviews for Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
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 quality is very high and the insights are important - as in the richness, precision, and elegance of its style.... A meeting with the mind of ... Read more