Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Critics need to remember what a struggle painting is." That sympathetic view comes from TIME's art critic, Robert Hughes, who this week offers a provocative assessment of contemporary U.S. art. Hughes is eminently qualified for his subject. He was the creator and host of the 1981 eight-part PBS series The Shock of the New: The Life and Death of Modern Art, and its forthcoming sequel, American Visions. In addition, he is a two-time winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism...
...quoted and ^ shuffled at will, without deference to the values it once embodied. Hence the postmodern assault on the chief form of classical modernist painting, abstract art. A general culture glut opens the present to a limitless eclecticism and disarms taste by making everything "interesting." And, as the critic Charles Newman argues in the most provocative book on this problem yet written by an American, The Post-Modern Aura, its net effect is inflation: the permeability the past has acquired is the natural ground of hype in the present...
Sculptor Louise Nevelson; author and critic V.S. Pritchett; Japanese economist Shigeto Tsuru '35; and medical pharmacologist Sir John W. Black round out this year's list of honoraries, which is one less than last year's 11 honorands...
...Pritchett, author and critic...
...Pritchett is best known for his short stories, but he been prominent as a writer of biographies, literary criticism, and other non-fiction work. In 1978, he ended his 50-year tenure as literary critic for the New Statesman, the English journal...