Donald Kuspit

Donald Kuspit (born March 26, 1935) is an American art critic and a poet. He is a practitioner of psychoanalytic art criticism and has published on Avant-garde aesthetics, Postmodernism, Modern art, and Conceptual art.[1][2]

Donald Kuspit
Donald Kuspit and Stefan Szczesny at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, September 2012
Born (1935-03-26) March 26, 1935
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University
OccupationArt critic and poet

Education

Kuspit graduated from Columbia College in 1955, and earned a M.A. from Yale University in 1958. He received his PhD in philosophy from the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1960. He returned to the United States to teach at Pennsylvania State University and became increasingly interested in art history, so he earned a M.A. from the university in 1964. He was a Fulbright Scholar and taught philosophy and American studies in Saarland University and University of Windsor, while working towards a PhD in art history at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1971.[3]

Academic career

Teaching Positions

Kuspit is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and School of Visual Arts. He was the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (1991–1997). In 1983, he received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Davidson College, in 1996 from the San Francisco Art Institute, and in 2007 from the New York Academy of Art. In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2005 he was the Robertson Fellow at the University of Glasgow. In 2008 he received the Tenth Annual Award for Excellence in the Arts from the Newington-Cropsey Foundation.

Awards/Grants

He received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association).[4] In 1997, the National Schools of Art and Design presented him with a citation for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts. In 2014 he was the first recipient of the Gabarron Foundation Award for Cultural Thought. He has received fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Program, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and Asian Cultural Council.[5]

Art criticism
  • The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980s (1986)[6]
  • The Inner Voice Visualized: Alfred DeCredico's Abstractions (1991)
  • The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist (1992)
  • 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)
  • Szczesny (1995)
  • Health and Happiness in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Art (1996)
  • Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde (1996)
  • Chihuly (1997)
  • Jamali (artist) (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)[7][8]
  • F. Scott Hess (2006) [9]
  • New Old Masters (2007)
  • William Conger (2008)[10]
  • Mia Brownell (2010)
  • Leigh Rivers Aerial Perspectives (2012)
  • Szczesny: Neue Wilden works from the 80s (2012)
  • Michael Zansky with Bradley Rubenstein (2014) ISBN 1938922506[11]
  • "Two Crowns of the Egg" with Michael Somoroff and Giannina Braschi (2014) ISBN 1938922506[12]
  • Marcus Reichert (2015) [13]

Poetry
  • Self-Refraction (1983)
  • Apocalypse with Jewels in the Distance (2000)
  • On the Gathering Emptiness (2004)
  • Disillusion (2018)

Further reading
  • Kuspit, Donald (2010). Psychodrama: Modern Art as Group Therapy. London: Ziggurat. ISBN 9780956103895. A collection of essays.

Film
  • Ciria pronounced thiria (2013) directed by Artur Balder

References
  1. "Donald Kuspit | Biography, Books, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  2. "Donald Kuspit". The Center for the Humanities. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  3. "Kuspit, Donald". Directory of American Scholars 8th ed (1982): 425; Halasz, Piri. "Art Criticism (and Art History) in New York: the 1940s vs the 1980s--Part Three: Clement Greenberg." Arts Magazine 57 (April 1983): 80-89. February 21, 2018. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  4. "Awards". The College Art Association. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
  5. "Donald Kuspit". The Center for the Humanities. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  6. "Review of The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980s". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 47 (4): 400. 1989. doi:10.2307/431154. ISSN 0021-8529. JSTOR 431154.
  7. Cole, Emmet (2004). "Donald Kuspit: The End of Art". Circa (109): 69. doi:10.2307/25564189. ISSN 0263-9475. JSTOR 25564189.
  8. Kuspit, Donald (2005). "The End of Art". Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 63 (1): 85–86.
  9. Donald Kuspit, "Self Portraits and Old Masters", Artnet, 2006
  10. Kuspit, Donald. “Always Abstractly True to Himself: William Conger’s Paintings,” William Conger: Paintings 1958–2008, Chicago: City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, 2009, p.6–23.
  11. McCoy, Ann (February 10, 2014). "MICHAEL ZANSKY: A Vacation on Mars with God". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  12. Somoroff, Michael. Michael Somoroff: Two Crowns of the Egg by Michael Somoroff.
  13. Donald Kuspit, "Mirages, Transformations, Miracles: Marcus Reichert's Paintings," Marcus Reichert, Tableaux: Paintings 2002-2012, Ziggurat Books International, London, 2015, p.xvii-xx.
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