Donald Kuspit argues here that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by "postart," a term invented by Alan Ka...
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Oct 03, 2007
Curt
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I learned that Kuspit's kind of craby and Duchamp was probably gay or impotent.
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Nov 04, 2011
Deniz Cem
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This is a fine book, on the condition that it's put in a time-machine and sent back to the 1910s.
I consider myself oldschool because I still favor Mondrian and the American Abstract but I really had to struggle mightily against Kuspit's narrow-mindedness in order to finish the book. Although I agree with him on some of his conclusions about post-art, I am mostly terrified about how he gets there.
His almost religious enthusiasm, charming at first, gets very tiring towards the More...
I consider myself oldschool because I still favor Mondrian and the American Abstract but I really had to struggle mightily against Kuspit's narrow-mindedness in order to finish the book. Although I agree with him on some of his conclusions about post-art, I am mostly terrified about how he gets there.
His almost religious enthusiasm, charming at first, gets very tiring towards the More...
Oct 26, 2009
Peter
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Great book, there's really too much to say about it. But he's calling for the ultimate end of art in its conception so that the art can reside in the object and the activity of the studio. He recognizes and calls for New Old Masters who do not live in the past but have learned and applied it to contemporary needs.
Dec 06, 2007
Matt
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I wasn't sure if I should give this book one star or five.
I greatly enjoyed Kuspit's utterly fascist standpoints on the avant-garde as well as the regression to absurd 19th century justifications for abstract painting in a world where it seems completely outdated and thoroughly irrelevant. His sweeping over-generalizations addressed towards artists like Duchamp (whose work Kuspit clearly cannot wrap his head around) had me rolling on the floor.
Something tells me that he More...
I greatly enjoyed Kuspit's utterly fascist standpoints on the avant-garde as well as the regression to absurd 19th century justifications for abstract painting in a world where it seems completely outdated and thoroughly irrelevant. His sweeping over-generalizations addressed towards artists like Duchamp (whose work Kuspit clearly cannot wrap his head around) had me rolling on the floor.
Something tells me that he More...
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Dec 16, 2009
John
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Great critique of the superficiality of today's art. Although Kuspit comes across as a curmudgeon, he eventually offers hope, for what he sees as art of the aesthetic experience.
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