Donald Kuspit

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Donald Kuspit and Stefan Szczesny in the 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel in New York, September 2012

Donald B. Kuspit (born March 26, 1935 in New York ) is an American art critic and scholar.

Life

After studying at Columbia University (BA) and Yale (MA), he received his doctorate in philosophy from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main under Theodor W. Adorno in 1960 . He completed a second dissertation in 1971 at the University of Michigan in the field of art history. Kuspit taught a. a. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the State University of New York at Stony Brook . From 1991 to 1997, he was also AD White Professor at Large at Cornell University . In 1983, Kuspit received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Prize for his art critical work .

In addition to his scientific and curatorial activities, Kuspit has also published several volumes of poetry.

Publications (selection)

  • The cult of the avant-garde artist , Cambridge 1993.
  • Signs of psyche in modern and postmodern art , Cambridge 1993.
  • Szczesny , Cologne 1995.
  • Idiosyncratic identities. Artists at the end of the avant-garde , Cambridge 1996.
  • Psychostrategies of avant-garde art , Cambridge 2000.
  • The dialectic of decadence. Between advance and decline in art , New York 2000.
  • The rebirth of painting in the late twentieth century , Cambridge 2000.
  • Don Eddy. The art of paradox , New York 2002.
  • The end of art , Cambridge 2004.
  • Albert Paley. Sculpture , Milan 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donald Kuspit: Theodor W. Adorno: A Memoir , in: Chateau Review VI / 1 (1983)
  2. ↑ Dictionary of art historians: http://arthistorians.info/kuspitd
  3. ^ List of AD White Professors at Large: http://adwhiteprofessors.cornell.edu/all.html
  4. ^ List of the Frank Jewett Mather Award winners: http://www.collegeart.org/awards/matherpast
personal data
SURNAME Kuspit, Donald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuspit, Donald B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH new York