The New Art: A Critical Anthology

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1966. 254 pages, illustrations; 19 cm. D178. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Once upon a time, almost everyone interested in contemporary art owned a copy of this book. Now, it's relatively scarce. Still a great collection of essays by leading art critics. CONTENTS: The creative act, by Marcel Duchamp; Contemporary art and the plight of its public, by Leo Steinberg; The big canvas, by E. C. Goossen; New directions in American painting, by Sam Hunter; The new art, by Alan Solomon; Notes on Op art, by Lawrence Alloway; The art audience and the critic, by Henry Geldzahler; Modernist painting, by Clement Greenberg; In praise of illusion, by Dore Ashton; Critical schizophrenia and the intentionalist method, by Max Kozloff; Anti-art and criticism, by Allen Leepa; Non-writing and the art scene, by Susan Sontag; A tale of two cities, by Thomas B. Hess; And now the sphinx, by Nicolas Calas; New York letter 1965: Reinhardt, Duchamp, Morris, by Lucy R. Lippard; Writings, by Ad Reinhardt; Jasper Johns: stories and ideas, by John Cage; Paul Brach's pictures, by Leo Steinberg; Andy Warhol, by Samuel Adams Green; Humanism and reality : Thek and Warhol, by Gregory Battcock; Toward a trans-literal and trans-technical dance-theater, by Kenneth King; Endowments for the great society, by Martin Ries.. 1st. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo.