Dialectical Conversions
Donald Kuspit's Art Criticism
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
Few art critics in Western history have had the lasting international impact of philosopher and psychoanalyst Donald Kuspit. A student of Theodor Adorno, Kuspit introduced in the 1970s a new type of philosophical art criticism drawing on critical theory, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis. This multifaceted art criticism has gained world renown for reasons that critics, art historians, and philosophers from around the world explain here. The first book about one of the most distinguished art critics in history, Dialectical Conversions surveys Kuspit’s role in triggering several historic shifts within art criticism.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Donald Kuspit’s Achievement
David Craven
My Intellectual Journey: From New York to Frankfurt and Back
Donald B. Kuspit
Art Criticism: Volume I, Number 1 (Spring 1979): Editorial Statement
Lawrence Alloway and Donald B. Kuspit
Citation of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (1983)
Jeanne Siegel, Brian O’Doherty, and Diane Vanderlip
I. Essays about Kuspit by Artists and Interviews with Artists
1. The Innovative Art Criticism of Donald Kuspit
Rudolph Baranik
2. A Dialogue with Donald Kuspit at Documenta in 1987
Anselm Kiefer
3. A Conversation with Donald Kuspit at the Guggenheim Museum
Georg Baselitz
4. The Significance of Kuspit’s Criticism for Artists
April Gornik
5. The Impact of Donald Kuspit’s Art Criticism on Artists
Rosalyn Schwartz
II. Essays about Kuspit by Art Critics and Art Historians
A. United States of America
6. Donald Kuspit and Clement Greenberg in Dialogue: The Mountain Lake Symposium (1980–1990) Ray Kass and Howard Risatti
7. Multiple Modernisms: Postmodernism and the Unique Place of Donald Kuspit in Modern Art Criticism
Matthew Biro
8. Donald Kuspit’s Jewish Consciousness
Matthew Baigell
9. On Kuspit, Kant, and Greenberg
Joseph Masheck
10. The Engagé Art of May Stevens and the Pedagogy of Donald Kuspit
Patricia Mathews
11. Kuspit and the New Subjectivism of the 1980s
Diane Waldman
12. Kuspit’s Humanness: Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis
Brian Winkenweder
B. Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East
13. Soulages’s Paintings and Kuspit’s Criticism
Ananda Shankar Chakrabarty
14. Dialogues in Difference: Donald Kuspit and Lawrence Alloway
Richard Leslie
15. In Conversation with Donald Kuspit
Anna María Guash
16. Reagan’s Anti-Aesthetic and Donald Kuspit’s Criticisms
Raúl Quintanilla
17. Abstract Art as Ideological Critique: Donald Kuspit on Kandinsky
Tijen Tunali
III. Selected Papers on Donald Kuspit at the 2003 International Association of Philosophy and Literature Conference, Leeds
18. Criticism and the “Metaphysics” of Art: A Close Encounter with Donald Kuspit
Mark Van Proyen
19. Kuspit on Gerhard Richter and the Teutonic Chill
Lucy Bowditch
20. Dialectic and Selfhood in Donald Kuspit’s Art Criticism
Randall K. Van Schepen
21. A Taste for Sham: Examples of Perversion and Suffering in Contemporary Art
Lynn M. Somers-Davis
Select Bibliography of Donald Kuspit’s Writings (1960–2006)
Index
Art: Art--General Studies
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