Word: kozloff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vitality. Beside such work, nearly all the abstract painting being done by artists of Stella's generation in the U.S. today looks ei ther timid or bored. Among younger artists, the abstract impulse tends to be more plainly decorative, less ambitious: witness the elaborately imbricated patterns of Joyce Kozloff s Mad Russian Blanket, or the high-keyed color swatches, like details from Matisse's wallpaper back grounds, of Kim MacConnel's Baton Rouge, 1978. There is also a liking for emblems, sometimes of a puzzling sort−as in the paintings of Lois Lane (not a pseudonym...
...making objects is irrelevant. The artist's duty is to reveal and criticize the attitudes by which art is made. In fact, painting and sculpture have always done this; every authentic creation is also a criticism, but criticism is not its sole subject. Instead, as Art Critic Max Kozloff pointed out in a trenchant essay on art-as-idea, we get "deliberately undigested accretions of data, documentations without comment, the purveying of information for its own sake, and the measuring of meaningless quantities...
...problematic nature of photography precludes an exhibition declaring a precise aesthetic, although some have been attempted (like Minor White's Being Without Clothes show last year at MIT). And although photography evades precise labeling as "art," "journalism," or just "information," this medium (in the words of critic Max Kozloff) "allows the most explicit record of the visual world we have, and can still evoke the widest and most contradictory interpretations. One needs no further proof of its modernity than that...