"Cultivated Impasses: Essays on the Waning of the Avant-Garde 1964-1975" by Max Kozloff, published by Marsilio Publishing, A School of Visual Arts Edition, 2000.

Softcover, 6" x 9"; 439 pages, very good condition.

"Max Kozloff identifies a dialectic in the field of modern art: a struggle between the romantic conception of the artist, i.e. Turner, and an ethical imperative that art participate in social struggle, i.ee Orozco, Rivera and the muralist movement. Artist production oscillates between these two impulses, but has been transformed by the creation of a new international art market." [a review]

Max Kozloff is an American art historian, art critic of modern art and photographer. He has been art editor at The Nation, and Executive Editor of Artforum. His essay "American Painting During the Cold War" is of particular importance to the criticism on American Abstract Expressionism. Kozloff received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968 and an Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in 1990.

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