Donald Kuspit

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Donald Kuspit
Columbia University
Occupation(s)Art critic and poet

Donald Kuspit (born March 26, 1935) is an American art critic and poet, known for his practice of

psychoanalytic art criticism. He has published on the subjects of avant-garde aesthetics, postmodernism, modern art, and conceptual art.[1][2]

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. Kuspit next taught at Pennsylvania State University
and became increasingly interested in art history. He earned a M.A. there in 1964.

Kuspit is a Fulbright Scholar and has taught philosophy and American studies at Saarland University and University of Windsor. He earned a PhD in art history from the University of Michigan 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 and grants

He received the

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and Asian Cultural Council.[5]

Art criticism

Poetry

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

Further reading

Film appearance

  • 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.
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  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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