The New Criterion Reader: The First Five Years

by Hilton Kramer

Book Overview

Gathers essays about modernism, Marxist criticism art patronage, Wallace Stevens, Picasso, Aaron Copland, Michel Foucault, Barbara Pym, Richard Serra, and Cindy Sherman. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029176417
• ISBN13: 9780029176412
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 429 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.5" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

A brilliant selection from the most important arts journal

Most denuncations of the state of the Arts in late twentieth century America are rooted in a nostalgia for the supposed glories of the past. What makes The New Criterion so different is that its editors and writers are in sympathy with modernism's goals. Therefore, their criticisms of excesses in the arts are more pungent--and more telling. No journal of the arts is as relevant as The New Criterion. Read this anthology and find out why. Not only will the articles open your eyes about what's right (and wrong) about today's culture, but you'll have the bonus of reading work that is extremely well-written in its own right