num_pages: 436
description: 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. . . .The significance of this volume lies not so much in the quality of its insights—although the quality is very high and the insights are important—as in the richness, precision, and elegance of its style. . . . A meeting with the mind of Leo Steinberg is one of the most enlightening experiences that contemporary criticism affords.”
language: English
title: Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
titlecomplete: Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
genres: Art, Essays, Art History, Criticism
ratings_count: 68
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Arts and Letters
publisher: University of Chicago Press