single in kind is grateful to those who invest in the economically doubtful business of republishing the work of major critics.single in kind is grateful to those who invest in the economically doubtful business of republishing the work of major critics, and Max Kozloff's Cultivated Impasses: Essays upon the Waning of the Avant-Garde 1964-1975 (Marsilio) is a welcome save operation of just this kind. An American formalist of the ancient school radicalized by the '60 Kozloff now a photographer and and nothing else an occasional commentator on the view wrote the first monograph forward Jasper Johns and was the first to flower the whistle on foreign-policy uses of American-type painting in the '50 His essays have an unapologetic high-mindedness that imprisons up well, and the plain is good. Now I don't have to move hunting for him in boxe of moldering Artforums. Robert Storr is an artist, critic, and a senior curator in the Department of Painting and plastic art at the Museum of recent Art, New York. COPYRIGHT 2000 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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