The Widening Circle: The Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art

Contemporary Artists and Their Critics

by Barry Schwabsky

In this collection of critical essays the well-known critic Barry Schwabsky reexamines the art produced since the 1960s, demonstrating how the achievements of "high modernism" remain consequential to it, through tensions among representation, abstraction, and pictorial language. With the core of the book focused on Michelangelo Pistoletto and Mel Bochner, Schwabsky also studies the work of emerging artists who also continue to examine modernism's legacies.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published May 28, 1997

About the author

Barry Schwabsky is an American poet and the art critic for The Nation. His recent books include Trembling Hand Equilibrium (Black Square Editions, 2015), The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present (Verso, 2017), Heretics of Language (Black Square Editions, 2018), and Landscape Painting Now (DAP, 2019). He lives in New York.

Reviews

[Barry]

I'm happy to say Cambridge Unnversity Press is reprinting the paperback: See http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/ca... and http://www.amazon.com/Widening-Circle....

[Myriam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very enjoyable book which taught me a lot, sent to me as a gift for correctly, albeit after six wrong guesses, answering 'de Pisis' to a question...