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...Bundeena, in a national park just south of Sydney. Here his drawing desk-part of an old cabinet propped up on bricks-seems as improvised as his career. The son of an administrator and a ceramicist, Gittoes dropped out of law studies and, inspired by the visiting modernist art critic Clement Greenberg, traveled to New York in 1968. He studied with the social-realist painter Joe Delaney, and on returning to Sydney the following year, sought to put Delaney's civic-minded ideals to work in the Yellow House, the now legendary artist-run space Gittoes helped establish...
According to his Top 10 list published in the Village Voice, film critic J. Hoberman’s favorite film of 2006 is “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu,” a stylistically innovative meditation on death, illness, and bureaucracy by Romanian director Cristi Puiu...
...visiting lecturer this semester in the Visual and Environmental Studies department, Hoberman’s genre-jumping critical sensibility has informed nearly two decades of work as the head film critic for the storied alternative weekly...
Helen Vendler, Porter University professor and world-renowned scholar and critic of poetry, agrees there is undoubtedly a strong poetic tradition at Harvard, but she argues that it would be parochial to think Harvard had a determining role in American poetry...
...different historical period. The first focuses on the antebellum years, the second on the Gilded Age, and the third on the 20th century. Trachtenberg covers a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on photography, urban studies, and literature. Trachtenberg views himself as the descendant of the historical critics of the 1920s who first used cultural criticism to examine photography and, in the process, created the field of American studies as we know it.Unfortunately, he is much more in dialogue with these historians than with the reader. At times the book seems to be infused with ghosts from the past...