Donald Kuspit

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

Life

After studies at Columbia University ( BA) and Yale (MA) in 1960 he received his doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in philosophy. He completed a second thesis in 1971 at the University of Michigan in art history from. Kuspit taught, inter alia, 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 for his art-critical work the Frank Jewett Mather Award of the College Art Association.

In addition to his academic 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.
  • Psycho Strategies 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.
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