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Against the grain : The new criterion on art and intellect at the end of the twentieth century / edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball.
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- Against the grain : The new criterion on art and intellect at the end of the twentieth century / edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball.
- Publication
- Chicago : I.R. Dee, 1995.
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- xiv, 463 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Since its founding in 1982, The New Criterion has emerged as the foremost voice of critical dissent in the culture wars now raging throughout American society. This book brings together an abundant selection of the magazine's most incisive essays, sparkling examples of wit, clarity, and fierce independence that have made The New Criterion one of our most respected sources of critical opinion." "Challenging the radical orthodoxies that have disfigured contemporary intellectual debate, the essays in Against the Grain cover a wide range of controversial subjects, from the philosophy of Michel Foucault to the apocalyptic kitsch of Anselm Kiefer, from the scandals of political correctness and multiculturalism to the state of Latin American literature and politics. Samuel Lipman writes on the future of classical music; Hilton Kramer on the plight of the art museum today; Joseph Epstein on the poet C.P. Cavafy; Roger Kimball on the treason of the intellectuals; and Harvey Mansfield on the continuing significance of the original debate over the Constitution."--Jacket.
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- New criterion (New York, N.Y.)
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I. The culture in crisis -- The treason of the intellectuals / Roger Kimball -- The culture of classical music today / Sammuel Lipman -- Has success spoiled the art museum? / Hilton Kramer -- Robert Hughes and the flaying of America / James Bowman -- Literature and politics in Latin America / Mark Falcoff -- Part II. The academy in the age of political correctness -- What is at stake in the "battle of the books"? / Christopher Ricks -- Studying the arts and the humanities : what can be done? / Hilton Kramer -- Back to the sixties with Spin Doctor Graff / James W. Tuttleton -- The case against Martin Bernal / David Gress -- Houston Baker, Jr. : another sun person heard from / Terry Teachout -- The Sobol report : multiculturalism triumphant / Heather Mac Donald -- When reason sleeps : the academy vs. science / Roger Kimball -- Part III. The arts today -- Wellem de Kooning at 90 / Hilton Kramer -- Adissent on Kiefer / Jed Perl -- Other people's music : Corigliano at the Met / John Simon -- Jennifer Bartlett and the crisis of public art / Eric Gibson -- Stuffed : Mike Kelley at the Hirshhorn / Jed Perl -- The trouble with "Angels" / Donald Lyons -- The best and the worst of Louis Bourgeois / Karen Wilkin -- Betraying a legacy : the case of the Barnes Foundation / Roger Kimball -- Part IV. Reputations reconsidered -- The perversions of Michel Foucault / Roger Kimball -- G.B.S. : the life of George Bernard Shaw / Brooke Allen -- Raymond Williams in retrospect / Maurice Cowling -- Tough buttons : the difficult Gertrude Stein / Guy Davenport -- The many lives of Frederick Douglass / James W. Tuttleton -- John Maynard Keynes : the Nietzsche of economics / David Frum ---- The importance of T.E. Lawrence / David Fromkin -- Max Beerbolm : a prodigy of parody / John Gross -- Walter Gieseking plays Ravel and Debussy / Samuel Lipman -- Mary McCarthy and company / Hilton Kramer -- A footnote for Housman / Brad Leithauser -- Vladimir Nabokov : the Russian years / John Simon -- The "Ecstasy" of Jean Baudrillard / Richard Vine -- Andrew Motion's Philip Larkin / Christopher Carduff -- C.P. Cavafy : a poet in history / Joseph Epstein -- The poetry of Robert Graves / Robert Richman -- Jean Genet : the apostle of inversion / H.J. Kaplan -- The career of Harold Laski / Edward Shils -- Part V. Recapturing traditions -- Arnaldo Momigliano and the human sources of history / Donald Kagan -- "The two cultures" today / Robert Kimball -- Selling Henry James / Joseph Epstein -- O Pioneers! Picasso and Barque 1907-1914 / Karen Wilkin -- A defense of translation / Martin Greenberg -- Returning to the founders : the debate on the Constitution / Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.
- ISBN
- 1566630703 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 156663069X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^94031977^
- OCLC
- 30974096
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library