Art Criticism and Modernism in the United State, Moonie..

Art Criticism and Modernism in the United StatesAuthor(s): Stephen Moonie\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367565411, 978-0367565411\nSynopsis\nThis study is an analysis of 'high' and 'late' modernist criticism in New York during the 1960s and early 1970s. Through a close reading of a selection of key critics of the periodwhich will expand the remit beyond the canonical textsthe book examines the ways that modernist criticisms discourse remains of especial disciplinary interest.\n\nDespite its alleged narrowness and exclusion, the debates of the 1960s raised fundamental questions concerning the nature of art writing. Those include arguments around the nature of value and judgement; the relationship between art criticism and art history; and the related problem of what we mean by the contemporary. Stephen Moonie argues that within those often-fractious debates, there exists a shared discourse. And further, contrar.