Donald Kuspit is an American

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 art critic

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, poet, and Distinguished Professor of art history and philosophy

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 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook

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 and professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts

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. Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics. He was formerly the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University

Cornell University

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 (1991-1997). He received the Frank Jewett Mather

Frank Jewett Mather

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 Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association). His essay "Reconsidering the Spiritual in Art" appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts

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Art Criticism

• The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980s (1988)
• The Inner Voice Visualized: Alfred DeCredico's Abstractions (1991)
• The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist (1993)
• The Dialectic of Decadence (1993)
• The Photography of Albert Renger-Patzsch (1993)
• Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art (1994)
• Primordial Presences: The Sculpture of Karel Appel (1994)
• Health and Happiness in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Art (1996)
• Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde (1996)
• Chihuly (1997)
• Jamali (1997)
• Joseph Raffael (1998)
• Daniel Brush (1998)
• Hans Hartung (1998)
• The Rebirth of Painting in the Late 20th Century (2000)
• Psychostrategies of Avant Garde Art (2000)
• Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries (2000)
• Don Eddy (2002)
• Hunt Slonem (2002)
• Hans Breder (2002)
• Steven Tobin (2003)
• April Gornik (2004)
• The End of Art (2004)

Poetry

• Self-Refraction (1983)
• Apocalypse with Jewels in the Distance (2000)
• On the Gathering Emptiness (2004)

External links

• Donald Kuspit The Matrix of Sensations
• A short biography of Kuspit at Blackbird