Cultivated Impasses: Essays on the Waning of the Avant-Garde 1964-1975

by Max Kozloff

Kozloff, Max

300 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2000

About the author

Max Kozloff was an American art historian, art critic of modern art, and photographer. He was art editor at The Nation, and Executive Editor of Artforum. His essay American Painting During the Cold War was of particular importance to the criticism on American Abstract Expressionism.
Kozloff received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968 and an Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in 1990.

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really great critic, from back when Artforum mattered. It is interesting to read what someone was gleening from the 50's and 60's when it was fresh. He is actaully critical, operating on both sides of the artistic merit of the 20th century. He is especially insightful on Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenberg, Ad Reinhart and Earthworks... and he loves Walt Whitman. I feel like he might have been an inspiration to Dave Hickey...