Background
Kuspit, Donald Burton was born on March 26, 1935 in New York City. Son of Morris and Celia (Schmukler) Kuspit Sigmund.
( At a time when beauty is much out of favor in the art w...)
At a time when beauty is much out of favor in the art world, Joseph Raffael has taken what some would consider the highly radical step of daring to paint beautiful pictures. Long one of contemporary art's most highly regarded painters, Raffael transforms intense observations of nature into color-drenched, deeply felt works of art. He often works on a very large scale, using either watercolor, oil, or acrylic to achieve the painstaking detail of his dazzling images. Amei Wallach's warmly perceptive introduction, inspired by a visit to the artist's home and studio in the south of France, explores Raffael's life history, his sources, and his ideas about art. Her individual chapter openers address the predominant subjects within the artist's work, including water and shore scenes, flowers, animals, fish and lilies, sacred symbols, and Raffael's wife, Lannis. A thought-provoking essay by Donald Kuspit places Raffael's painting within the larger context of twentieth-century art, psychology, and philosophy. Complementing these texts are the paintings themselves-sun-dappled carp, luminous iris, tumultuous rivers, and other wonders of nature captured in radiant visual meditations. The artist has also contributed two engaging written pieces, both of which illuminate the pleasures and occasional terrors of the creative process. His "Diary of a Painting" traces the evolution of one major work over several months, from the original slide to the finished wall-size watercolor, providing insight into the emotional and technical demands of creating a work of art. His informative and revealing "Autobiographical Chronology" provides a personal look back, from his Brooklyn childhood to his art-making career in New York, California, and the south of France, where Joseph Raffael lives and works today.
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(The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist examines the philosoph...)
The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist examines the philosophical, psychological and aesthetic premises for avant-garde art and its subsequent evolution and corruption in the late twentieth century. Arguing that modernist art is essentially therapeutic in intention, both towards self and society, Donald Kuspit further posits that neo-avant-garde, or post-modern art, at once mocks and denies the possibility of therapeutic change. As such, it accommodates the status quo of capitalist society, in which fame and fortune are valued above anything else. Stripping avant-garde art of its missionary, therapeutic intention, neo-avant-garde art instead converts it into a cliché of creative novelty or ironical value for its fashionable look. Moreover, it destroys the precarious balance of artistic narcissism and social empathy that characterizes modern art, tilting it cynically towards the former. Incorporating psychoanalytic ideas, particularly those concerned with narcissism, The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist offers a reinterpretation of modern art history. Donald Kuspit, one of America's foremost art critics, is a contributing editor to Artforum and the author of many books.
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(Tobin's work transforms the wonders of nature into monume...)
Tobin's work transforms the wonders of nature into monumental sculptures. Blown-glass Cocoons, cast-glass Doors, luminous Waterglass, recent Shelters and Earth Bronzes (including African Termite Hills, Bone sculptures, and signature Roots) and his provocative new Exploded Clay are explored.
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( Jamali grew up in the ancient crossroads city of Peshaw...)
Jamali grew up in the ancient crossroads city of Peshawar, near the Khyber Pass in the northwestern Himalayas. At age 13, he was sent to a British military academy from which he was expelled at age 16. He went to live in primitive and austere conditions in the Rajasthan desert for five years, and from there he went to Kafiristan, a tiny valley high in the Himalayas. In 1973, he travelled extensively in Europe, then emigrated to the United States and became a U.S. citizen. Since then he has lived in Winter Park, Florida. Jamali has created a large body of work in several innovative techniques. His works are in 1500 private collections in the United States. He brings together mysticism and quantum mechanics in a beautiful and powerful chthonic art. This convergence is the subject of Donald Kuspit's essay. Kuspit says, "Jamali's saturated, esoteric paintings-- many are literally weighty as well as iconographically exotic-- have their necessary place in our secular world: they are among the important mystical efforts to save humankind from itself by restoring its sense of the divine possibilities of being-- the possibility of being divine while being all too human."
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(This choice collection of essays scrutinizes the aestheti...)
This choice collection of essays scrutinizes the aesthetic developments of the last twenty-five years, from Abstract Expressionism to the most recent permutation of Postmodernism.
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(Donald Kuspit offers a radical new interpretation of avan...)
Donald Kuspit offers a radical new interpretation of avant-garde art based on a psychological understanding of it. Avant-garde art, Kuspit suggests, is a response to the modern crowd, which undermines and destroys the sense of self. The artist tries to restore his sense of self through one or more of several techniques: identifying with his medium; demonstrating the crowd's perversity and insanity; making hallucinatory art that shows his own insanity; or transcending the crowd altogether by escaping into a world of abstraction. An extensive reinterpretation of Manet keynotes the book.
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(Author Donald Kuspit calls Eddy a spiritual realist, ackn...)
Author Donald Kuspit calls Eddy a spiritual realist, acknowledging his work's peculiar mysteriousness, its enigmatic intensity. This beautiful monograph surveys the career of Eddy, a leading American realist painter, covering nearly four decades of his work.
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(Influenced by predecessors both in America and abroad, fr...)
Influenced by predecessors both in America and abroad, from the Luminists to Vermeer, Gornik's canvases - panoramic, majestic, and richly coloured - convey what critic Donald Kuspit calls, 'an original, fresh experience of nature'. This monograph includes lists of exhibitions, collections and a bibliography.
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(This is a catalog of an exhibition organized to celebrate...)
This is a catalog of an exhibition organized to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the artist's first one-man show, and contains over 30 black and white and color plates and well as the articles: "Eric Fischl's View: To Whom Does it Belong" by Jean-Christophe Ammann; "Voyeurism, American-Style: Eric Fischl's Vision Of The Perverse" by Donald B. Kuspit; and, "Corrupting Realism: Four Probes Into A Body Of Work" by Bruce W. Ferguson.
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Jamali is an American artist of international importance. Mystical experience and spiritual ritual are the daily practice of his art, and the source of his vocabulary is in his dreams. As Jamali has said, these are not personal dreams, they are communal dreams and their expression in painting has become a new movement in art called Mystical Expressionism. In his introduction, Donald Kuspit says that Jamali's art answers modern art's social and political concerns of alienation and despair by fusing crosscultural communal religious imagery with modernist abstract art to create a new postmodernism. This volume is a sequel to Mystical Expressionism: Paintings, also written by Donald Kuspit and published by Rizzoli in 1997.
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( This choice collection of essays scrutinizes the aesthe...)
This choice collection of essays scrutinizes the aesthetic developments of the last twenty-five years, from Abstract Expressionism to the most recent permutation of Postmodernism. In essays culled from three decades of critical writing, Donald Kuspit explores the aesthetic developments of the twentieth century, from post-impressionism to the latest permutation of post-Modernism. Ranging from Willem de Kooning to Andy Warhol to Sue Coe, this provocative anthology chronicles the distinctive voice of a formidable art critic whose reflections on art, artists, and art criticism constitute an eclectic exploration of the ways in which art and art criticism have influenced contemporary thought and psychology. The book's investigation into the social impact of artwork also reflects on the inner life of the artist.
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This visual delight chronicles renowned American artist, April Gornik's luminous paintings and drawings, and its impact on the contemporary art world.
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(The Rebirth of Painting in the Twentieth Century examines...)
The Rebirth of Painting in the Twentieth Century examines the continued validity and variety of painting in the post-modern era. Bringing a psychological perspective to the issues, Donald Kuspit argues that painting remains the premier medium of the visual arts, in terms of its potential for innovation and influence on other modes of art making. Discussing a range of representational and abstract painting in the United States and Europe by artists such as Gregory Amenoff, Vincent Desidiero and Odd Nerdrum, Kuspit also examines works by Picasso, Mondrian, Pollock, Johns, and Soutine, among others, with an eye to reevaluating their art historical significance. This study also includes psychosocial studies of various cultural issues that affect painting, including feminism, and Jewishness.
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philosopher art historian university professor
Kuspit, Donald Burton was born on March 26, 1935 in New York City. Son of Morris and Celia (Schmukler) Kuspit Sigmund.
Bachelor in Philosophy with distinction, Columbia University, 1955. Master of Arts in Philosophy, Yale University, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy magna cum laude, University Frankfort, 1960.
Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, University Michigan, 1971. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Davidson College, 1993. Doctor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, 1996.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Illinois, 1998. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), New York Academy Art, 2007.
Kuspit is one of America"s most distinguished art critics. He was formerly the A. Doctorate. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (1991–1997). He received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association).
In 1983 he received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Davidson College, in 1996 from the San Francisco Art Institute, and in 2007 from the New York Academy of Artist
In 1997 the National Schools of Art and Design presented him with a citation for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts. In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In 2000 he delivered the Getty Lectures at the University of Southern California. In 2005 he was the Robertson Fellow at the University of Glasgow.
In 2014 he was the first recipient of the Gabarron Foundation Award for Cultural Thought.
He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation, and Asian Cultural Council, among other organizations. He has doctorates in philosophy (University of Frankfurt)and art history (University of Michigan), as well as degrees from Columbia University, Yale University, and Pennsylvania State University. He has also completed the course of study at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical Center.
The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980s (1988) The Inner Voice Visualized: Alfred DeCredico"s Abstractions (1991) The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist (1993) The Dialectic of Decadence (1993) The Photography of Albert Renger-Patzsch (1993) Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art (1994) Primordial Presences: The Sculpture of Karel Appel (1994) Szczesny (1995) Health and Happiness in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Art (1996) Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde (1996) Chihuly (1997) Jamali (artist) (1997) Joseph Raffael (1998) Daniel Brush (1998) Hans Hartung (1998) The Rebirth of Painting in the Late 20th Century (2000) Psychostrategies of Avant Garde Art (2000) Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries (2000) Don Eddy (2002) Hunt Slonem (2002) Hans Breder (2002) Steven Tobin (2003) April Gornik (2004) The End of Art (2004) F. Scott Hess (2006) New Old Masters (2007) Mia Brownell (2010) Leigh Rivers Aerial Perspectives (2012) Szczesny: Neue Wilden works from the 80s (2012).
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( At a time when beauty is much out of favor in the art w...)
(This visual delight chronicles renowned American artist, ...)
(The Rebirth of Painting in the Twentieth Century examines...)
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Fellow Asian Cultural Council. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, College Art Association (Frank Jewett Mather award 1983), American Society Aesthetics, International Association Art Critics (vice president American section 1982-1984), American Psychoanalytic Association.
Married Judith Clements Price, March 22, 1962.