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The End of Art

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The End of Art

Author: Donald Kuspit, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Date Published: May 2005
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521540162

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In The End of Art, Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by 'postart', a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the banal over the enigmatic, the scatological over the sacred, cleverness over creativity. Tracing the demise of aesthetic experience to the works and theory of Marcel Duchamp and Barnett Newman, Kuspit argues that devaluation is inseparable from the entropic character of modern art, and that anti-aesthetic postmodern art is its final state. In contrast to modern art, which expressed the universal human unconscious, postmodern art degenerates into an expression of narrow ideological interests. In reaction to the emptiness and stagnancy of postart, Kuspit signals the aesthetic and human future that lies with the New Old Masters. The End of Art points the way to the future for the visual arts.
- Argues that art has been replaced by postart
- Critiques the devaluation of the aesthetic
- Argues that there are New Old Masters on the horizon
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Product details
- Date Published: May 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521540162
- length: 226 pages
- dimensions: 226 x 150 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.32kg
- contains: 39 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The changing of the art guard
2. The aesthetic maligned: Duchamp and Newman
3. Seminal entropy: the paradox of modern art
4. The decline of the cult of the unconscious: running on empty
5. Mirror, mirror of the worldly wall, why is art no longer the truest religion of all?: the god that lost faith in itself
Postscript. Abandoning and rebuilding the studio.
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Donald Kuspit, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Donald Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics. Winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism, given by the College Art Association, he is a Contributing Editor to Artforum, Sculpture, New Art Examiner, and Tema Celeste magazines, as well as Editor of Art Criticism. Professor of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, he also holds honorary degrees from Davidson College, the San Francisco Institute of Arts, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he has been the A. D. White Professor–at-Large at Cornell University. Dr Kuspit has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author and editor of hundreds of articles and books, most recently The Rebirth of Painting in the Late 20th Century and Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art.

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