The Triumph of Modernism by Kramer, Hilton -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface I Modernism and Abstraction

Kandinsky and the Birth of Abstraction Mondrian and Mysticism: “My Long Search Is Over” Art, Revolution, and Kazimir Malevich Abstraction and Utopia Abstraction in America: The First Generation Was Rothko an Abstract Painter? Jackson Pollock and the New York School

II Modernism and Its Critics

Clement Greenberg in the Forties Clement Greenberg and the Cold War T. J. Clark and the Marxist Critique of Modern Painting Rembrandt as Warhol: Svetlana Alpers’s “Enterprise”

III Modernism and After

ESSAYS

Richard Serra at MOMA The Death of Andy Warhol How Good Was Gauguin? John Szarkowski’s “History of Photographic Pictures” Reflections on Matisse Philip Johnson’s Brilliant Career Duchamp and His Legacy Léger’s Modernism Bonnard and “the Stupidities”

A GALLERY CHRONICLE

Mapplethorpe at the Whitney: Big, Glossy, Offensive Kiefer at MOMA Frankenthaler at the Whitney The Citadel of Modernism Falls to Deconstructivists Fairfield Porter, a Master Long Ignored Hoving’s Biteless Barking A Wretched Nauman Show How Long Will Curators Ignore the Great Nerdrum? Best-kept Secret in Art? Stettheimer Reintroducing Nadelman Alex Katz Blossoms Welcome, Professor Forge The Somber Brilliance of Braque’s Late Work Richard Diebenkorn at the Whitney Arthur Dove at the Phillips Collection Richard Pousette-Dart at the Met Gustave Courbet at Salander-O’Reilly Jinny and Bagley Wright Collection at the Seattle Art Museum Honoré Daumier at the Phillips Collection Thomas Eakins at the Philadelphia Museum The Thaw Collection at the Met and the Morgan Gallery Lois Dodd at Alexandre Gallery Christopher Wilmarth at the Fogg Museum Max Beckmann at MOMA Manet at the Art Institute of Chicago The Matisse Collection at the Met John Walker at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art R. B. Kitaj at Marlborough Gallery Marvin Bileck and Emily Nelligan at Alexandre Gallery Oscar Bluemner at the Whitney

IV Modernism and Its Institutions

Modernism and Its Institutions Has Success Spoiled the Art Museum? Tate Modern Inside and Out: The Museum as Culture Mall The Man Who Created MOMA Does Abstract Art Have a Future?

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