The triumph of modernism : the art world, 1987-2005 / / Hilton Kramer

• Autore: Kramer Hilton
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2013; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 709.04
• Soggetto topico: Modernism (Art); Art, Modern - 20th century; Art, Modern - 21st century
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Part I: Modernism and Abstraction; Kandinsky and the Birth of Abstraction; Mondrian and Mysticism: "My Long Search Is Over"; Art, Revolution, and Kazimir Malevich; Abstraction and Utopia; Abstraction in America: The First Generation; Was Rothko an Abstract Painter?; Jackson Pollock and the New York School; Part II: Modernism and Its Critics; Clement Greenberg in the Forties; Clement Greenberg and the Cold War; T. J. Clark and the Marxist Critique of Modern Painting; Rembrandt as Warhol: Svetlana Alpers's "Enterprise"; Part III: Modernism and After; ESSAYS ; Richard Serra at MOMAThe Death of Andy Warhol; How Good Was Gauguin?; John Szarkowski's "History of Photographic Pictures"; Reflections on Matisse; Philip Johnson's Brilliant Career; Duchamp and His Legacy; Léger's Modernism; Bonnard and "the Stupidities"; A GALLERY CHRONICLE; Mapplethorpe at the Whitney: Big, Glossy, Offensive; Kiefer at MOMA; Frankenthaler at the Whitney; The Citadel of Modernism Falls to Deconstructivists; Fairfield Porter, a Master Long Ignored; Hoving's Biteless Barking; A Wretched Nauman Show; How Long Will Curators Ignore the Great Nerdrum? ; Best-kept Secret in Art? StettheimerReintroducing Nadelman; Alex Katz Blossoms; Welcome, Professor Forge; The Somber Brilliance ofBraque's Late Work; Richard Diebenkorn at the Whitney; Arthur Dove at the Phillips Collection; Richard Pousette-Dart at the Met; Gustave Courbet at Salander-O'Reilly; Jinny and Bagley Wright Collection at the Seattle Art Museum; Honoré Daumier at the Phillips Collection; Thomas Eakins at the Philadelphia Museum; The Thaw Collection at the Met and the Morgan Gallery; Lois Dodd at Alexandre Gallery; Christopher Wilmarth at the Fogg Museum; Max Beckmann at MOMA ; Manet at the Art Institute of ChicagoThe Matisse Collection at the Met; John Walker at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art; R. B. Kitaj at Marlborough Gallery; Marvin Bileck and Emily Nelligan at Alexandre Gallery; Oscar Bluemner at the Whitney; Part IV: Modernism and Its Institutions; Modernism and Its Institutions; Has Success Spoiled the Art Museum?; Tate Modern Inside and Out: The Museum as Culture Mall; The Man Who Created MOMA; Does Abstract Art Have a Future?; Index; A Note on the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: The great authority and historical undergirding of Hilton Kramer's art criticism are on abundant display in this first collection of his pieces to appear in twenty years. The essays and reviews in The Triumph of Modernism constitute a fever chart of the contemporary art scene, diagnosing the state of modernism and its vital legacy in the postmodern world.
• Titolo autorizzato: The triumph of modernism
• ISBN: 1-56663-708-2; 1-4422-2322-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824241403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II