Leo Steinberg s classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public and the flatbed picture plane to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The latter, which Francine du Plessix Gray called a tour de force of critical method, is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of the Johns s work ever written. This edition includes a new preface and a handful of additional illustrations. The art book of the year, if not of the decade and possibly of the century. . ....
Leo Steinberg s classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public and the fla...
Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg's evidence resides in the imagery of the overtly sexed Christ, in Infancy and again after death. Steinberg argues that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the first offer of blood in the...
Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorshi...
Michelangelo's Sculpture is the first in a series of volumes of Steinberg's selected writings and unpublished lectures, edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.
Michelangelo's Sculpture is the first in a series of volumes of Steinberg's selected writings and unpublished lectures, edited by his longtime associa...
