Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: That Old Thing, Art Criticism
	Problems of Method
	Art Criticism and Art History
	Notes
1. Clement Greenberg: 'A Critic on the Side of History'
	'Collage' (1961)
	'The Later Monet' (1957/1959)
	Post Painterly Abstraction (1964)
	Conclusion
	Notes
2. Michael Fried: 'Restoring Modernism to Health'
	Fried's early criticism for Arts Magazine (1961-2)
	The New York Letters (1962-4)
	'Three American Painters: Noland, Olitski, Stella' (1965)
	'Shape as Form' (1966-7)
	'Art and Objecthood' (1967)
	'Manet's Sources' (1969)
	Notes
3. Rosalind Krauss: 'A Broader Modernist Sensibility'
	'Allusion and Illusion in Donald Judd' (1966)
	'On Frontality' (1968)
	'The Essential David Smith' (1969)
	'Brancusi and the Myth of Ideal Form' (1970)
	'Pictorial Space and the Question of Documentary' (1971)
	'A View of Modernism' (1972)
	Tom Wolfe, Aesthetic Experience, and 'the Lynda Benglis thing'
	'Impressionism: The Narcissus of Light' (1976)
	Notes
4. Annette Michelson: 'A Rigorous Dialectic of Seeing and Reading'
	'Breton's Esthetics' (1966)
	'What is Cinema?' (1968)
	'Bodies in Space: Film as "Carnal Knowledge"' (1969)
	'Toward Snow' (1971)
	'Rose Hobart and Monsieur Phot: Early Films from Utopia Parkway' (1973)
	'Anemic Cinema' (1973)
	'A View from the New York Hilton' (1974)
	Notes
5. Harold Rosenberg: Action, Criticism, and History
	'The American Action Painters' (1952)
	New York School: The First Generation (1965)
	The Art Critic as Art Historian
	'Making' art history and the problem of criticism
	The 'D.M.Z.' and the contemporary museum
	Notes
6. Leo Steinberg: 'My Secret Life'
	'Contemporary Art and the Plight of its Public' (1962)
	'Jasper Johns' (1962)
	The Interpretative 'Encounter'
	Criticism's Act of 'Faith'
	'Reflections on the State of Criticism' (1968) and 'Other Criteria' (1972)
	'The Flatbed-Picture Plane'
	Robert Rauschenberg's 22 The Lily White  (ca. 1950)
	Third Time Painting (1961)
	Notes
7. Lawrence Alloway and the Complex Present
	'The Arts and the Mass Media' (1958) and 'The Long Front of Culture' (1959)
	Six Painters and the Object (1963)
	Systemic Painting (1966)
	'Art and the Communications Network' (1966)
	Art and the Expanding Audience
	'Network: The Art World Described as a System' (1972)
	'The Function of the Art Critic' (1974)
	Alloway and 'the Contemporary'
	Notes
Conclusion
	Notes
Bibliography
	Archival Sources
		Published Works
Index