May 10, 2012
The first photograph was abstract, however inadvertently. It was made by Joseph Niépce in 1826 or 1827. Here is Douwe Draaisma’s description of it: “The exposure time was a full eight hours. In this way an ‘impossible’ image was created: the opposite walls have both caught the sunlight. The afternoon sun erased the morning shadows.”(1)
ANDREAS GURSKY'S OCEANIC FEELING by Donald Kuspit
Andreas Gursky's photographs of apocalyptic oceans and a harsh, unpopulated earth symbolize a technological society that has lost its "sense of bonding with the universe."
DOT DELIRIUM by Donald Kuspit
Jennifer Bartlett’s early plate works.
Oct. 26, 2006
BOTERO’S HUMANISM by Donald Kuspit
Fernando Botero’s paintings of Abu Ghraib.
Oct. 13, 2006
LUCAS THE LOVABLE by Donald Kuspit
Avant-garde narcissism in new works by Lucas Samaras.
Oct. 5, 2006
SACRED SADNESS by Donald Kuspit
Sean Scully’s Romantic geometry.
Aug. 25, 2006
A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit
Chapter 10, Part 2: The Decadence of Advanced Art and the Return of Tradition and Beauty: The New as Tower of Conceptual Babel: The Tenth Decade.
A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit
Chapter 6: The dialectic of myth and abstraction in Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Art Informel.
June 27, 2006
A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART by Donald Kuspit
Chapter 5: From Abstract Expressionism to Expressionistic Symbolism, via Pollock, Gorky, de Kooning
A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART
by Donald Kuspit
In the introduction to his new book, to be published in Artnet Magazine, the author examines the rise of the avant-garde.
