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Author Kuspit, Donald B. (Donald Burton), 1935-

Title The rebirth of painting in the late twentieth century / Donald Kuspit
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Description xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Acknowledgments page vii -- Prefatory Note ix -- Introduction: Why Painting? 1 -- I. Painting: Past and Present -- 1 Charles Burchfield: Apocalypse Now 9 -- 2 Soutine's Shudder: Jewish Naivete? 18 -- 3 Picasso's Portraits and the Depths of Modernism 29 -- 4 A Shameful Cultural Sham?: Willem de Kooning's Last Paintings 34 -- 5 Jackson Pollock: Lively Art, Artless Life 38 -- 6 Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly: The Deadend of Modernism 41 -- 7 Ivan Albright: Anachronistic Curiosity or the Ultimate -- Modern Artist? 48 -- 8 Jiri Georg Dokoupil: Real Hallucinations and Anal Absolutes 53 -- 9 Abstract Painting and the Spiritual Unconscious 62 -- 10 The Pathos of Purity: Piet Mondrian Reassessed 76 -- 11 Negatively Sublime Identity: Pierre Soulages's Abstract Paintings 80 -- 12 Unconscious and Self-Conscious Color in "American-Type" -- Painting 91 -- 13 Relics of Transcendence 101 -- 14 Gregory Amenoff: Renewing Romantic Mystical Nature Painting 107 -- 15 Modern History Painting in the United States 115 -- 16 Mourning and Memory: Wlodek Ksiazek's Abstract Paintings 126 -- 17 Laszlo Feher: Memory and Abandonment 129 -- 18 Odd Nerdrum, Perverse Humanist 135 -- 19 Vincent Desiderio: Postmodern Visionary Painting 139 -- viii CONTENTS -- II. Animadversions -- 20 Avant-Garde, Hollywood, Depression: The Collapse of High Art 147 -- 21 Failure of Identity?: On Being Half an Artist 158 -- 22 Of the Immature, By the Immature, For the Immature: -- Keith Haring and Cindy Sherman 166 -- 23 Heroic Isolation or Delusion of Grandeur?: Chuck Close's -- Portraits of Artists 171 -- 24 Nan Goldin: Pictures of Pathology 175 -- 25 David Wojnarowicz: The Last Rimbaud 181 -- 26 Woman at Risk: The Representation of the Feminine in Modern -- and Postmodern Art 184 -- 27 Unconsciously, Always an Alien and Self-Alienated: -- The Problem of the Jewish-American Artist 200 -- 28 Meyer Schapiro's Jewish Unconscious 209 -- Notes 223 -- Publication Data 253 -- Index 255
Summary "The Rebirth of Painting in the Late Twentieth Century examines the continued validity and variety of painting in the postmodern era. Bringing a psychological perspective to the subject, Donald Kuspit argues that painting remains the premiere medium of the visual arts, in terms of its potential for innovation and influence on other modes of art making. Discussing a range of representational and abstract painting in the United States and Europe by artists such as Gregory Amenoff, Vincent Desidiero, and Odd Nerdrum, Kuspit also examines works by Picasso, Mondrian, Pollock, Johns, and Soutine, among others, with an eye to reevaluating their art historical significance. This study also includes psychosocial studies of various cultural issues that affect painting, including feminism and Jewish identity."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Geschichte 1960-2000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-252) and index
Subject Art -- Psychological aspects.
Painting, Modern -- 20th century.
Painting, Modern -- 20th century -- Psychological aspects.
LC no. 99016265
ISBN 0521665531 paperback
0521662184 hardback