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The Nation magazine, since its founding in 1865, began what has become, for better or worse, art criticism as a cultural institution in the United States. This eclectic collection features contributors like Christopher Hitchens on “degenerate art,” Heywood Broun on the Artists Congress of 1936, Katherine Anne Porter on children’s art, Marianne Moore on the death of Nation art critic Paul Rosenfeld, and Langston Hughes on “Negro Art.” The volume also includes contributions from many well-known Stuart Davis, Marsden Harley, Alfred Stieglitz, John Marin, Kenyon Cox, Guy Pene Du Bois, Louis Lozowick, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Celebrated writers on art such as Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Lawrence Alloway, Hilton Kramer, Max Kozloff, John Berger, and Arthur Danto give readers first-hand accounts of the debuts of artists ranging from John Singer Sargent to Jackson Pollock and Willem deKooning as well as the famous lawsuit between John Ruskin and James McNeill Whistler (reported by a youthful Henry James), the destruction of Diego Rivera’s Rockefeller Center murals and Richard Nixon’s views on art. More recently writers like E.L. Doctorow and Katha Pollitt have weighed in on the recent culture wars over arts funding and free expression.
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Brushes with History, Peter G. Meyer, Arthur C. Danto, Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Hilton Kramer, John Berger, Henry James, Christopher Hitchens, Katherine Anne Porter, Marianne Moore, Alfred Stieglitz, Frank Lloyd Wright, Katha Pollitt, Manny Farber
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- Brushes with History
- Subtitle
- Writing on Art from The Nation, 1865-2001
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter G. Meyer, Arthur C. Danto, Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Hilton Kramer, John Berger, Henry James, Christopher Hitchens, Katherine Anne Porter, Marianne Moore, Alfred Stieglitz, Frank Lloyd Wright, Katha Pollitt, Manny Farber
- Publisher
- Nation Books
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 380
- ISBN10
- 1560253290
- ISBN13
- 9781560253297
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Art, USA, History of Art
- Description
- The Nation magazine, since its founding in 1865, began what has become, for better or worse, art criticism as a cultural institution in the United States. This eclectic collection features contributors like Christopher Hitchens on “degenerate art,” Heywood Broun on the Artists Congress of 1936, Katherine Anne Porter on children’s art, Marianne Moore on the death of Nation art critic Paul Rosenfeld, and Langston Hughes on “Negro Art.” The volume also includes contributions from many well-known Stuart Davis, Marsden Harley, Alfred Stieglitz, John Marin, Kenyon Cox, Guy Pene Du Bois, Louis Lozowick, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Celebrated writers on art such as Bernard Berenson, Clement Greenberg, Lawrence Alloway, Hilton Kramer, Max Kozloff, John Berger, and Arthur Danto give readers first-hand accounts of the debuts of artists ranging from John Singer Sargent to Jackson Pollock and Willem deKooning as well as the famous lawsuit between John Ruskin and James McNeill Whistler (reported by a youthful Henry James), the destruction of Diego Rivera’s Rockefeller Center murals and Richard Nixon’s views on art. More recently writers like E.L. Doctorow and Katha Pollitt have weighed in on the recent culture wars over arts funding and free expression.