Cultivated Impasses
Subtitle: Essays on the Waning of the Avant-Garde 1964 - 1975
Publisher: Marsilio Publishers
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781568860718
Subjects: Multicultural Education; History - Modern; Criticism - General; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Criticism; Fine Arts; General
Description: "Max Kozloff's Cultivated Impasses provides a guide to the heated and complex debates that animated the art world of the sixties and seventies. Virtually every idiom of current practice, from conceptual art and body works to multi-media installation, originated in the period he covers here. Kozloff re-examines the traditions of twentieth century modernism from the vantage of his frontline post as a critic in the seventies.

More than that, in writings that have an edge, he analyzes the moral paradoxes and conflicting interests that marked the waning of the avant-garde, an event of continuing historical importance."--BOOK JACKET.