Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art

Leo Steinberg’s 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. Contemporary Art And The Plight Of Its Public.--jasper Johns: The First Seven Years Of His Art.--other Criteria.--picasso's Sleepwatchers.--the Skulls Of Picasso.--the Algerian Women And Picasso At Large.--monet's Water Lilies.--gonzalez.--recent Drawings, Usa.--de Kooning's Woman.--pollock's First Retrospective.--pascin.--torsos And Raoul Hague.--fritz Garner And Philip Guston At The Modern.--paul Brach's Pictures.--the Eye Is A Part Of The Mind.--objectivity And The Shrinking Self.--rodin. Includes Bibliographical References.