Barbara Rose is the author of books on Joan Miro, Claes Oldenburg, Lee Krasner, and Ellsworth Kelly and has twice received the College Art Association's Mather Award for distinguished criticism.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction by Barbara RoseI. Reinhardt on ReinhardtEditor's NoteChronology (1966)A Contribution to a Journal of Some Future Art Historian (1958)Five Stages of Reinhardt's Timeless Stylistic Art-Historical Cycle(1965)Reinhardt Paints a Picture (1965)An Interview with Ad Reinhardt (1966-1967)Monologue (1970)II. Art as ArtEditor's Note[Abstraction vs. Illustration] (1943)Abstract Art Refuses (1952)25 Lines of Words on Art: Statement (1958)Art-as-Art (1962)[Art-as-Art] (1962-63)The Next Revolution in Art (1964)Art in Art is Art-as-Art (1966)39 Art Planks: Programs for "Program" Painting (1963)There Is Just One Painting (1966)[Art-as-Art] (1966-67)III. The Black PaintingsEditor's Note[The Black-Square Paintings] (1963)The Black-Square Painting Shows, 1963, 1964, 1965 (1966)Abstract Painting, Sixty by Sixty Inches Square, 1960, (1963)[On the Black Paintings] (1963)Black as Symbol and Concept (1967)Dark (undated)OneBlack, Symbol (undated)"Black" (undated)Time (undated)Black (undated)[On Negation] (undated)[Notes on the Black Paintings] (undated)[Oneness] (undated)[lmageless Icons] (undated)The First PaintingsEndIV. Art and LifeEditor's NotePaintings and Pictures (1943)The Context of Art (1963)To Be Part of Things ... (undated)Routine Extremism (undated)Museum (undated)[Worldliness] (undated)Timeless Art-Words (undated)[Art in the World] (undated)The Artist is Responsible . . .Artist (undated)[The Role of the Artist] (undated)An Artist, a Fine-Artist or Free-Artist (undated)V. Art and EthicsEditor's NoteOn Standards-in Art (1953)44 Titles for Articles for Artists under 45 (1958)On Art and Morality (1960)What is Corruption? (1961)[The Present Situation in Art]The Artist in Search of a Code of Ethics (1960)Aesthetic Responsibility (1962)Documents of Modern Art (1960)VI. Art and PoliticsEditor's Note[To the Artists' Union] (c. 1937)[The Fine Artist and the War Effort] (c. 1943)[What are Artists' Crimes as Artists?] (1963)[Government and the Arts] (undated)VII. Art and ReligionEditor's Note[The Cult of Art] (undated)Mandala (undated)[Religious Strength through Market-place Joy] (undated)[Creation as Content] (undated)VIII. Art and EducationEditor's NoteThe Artist in Search of an Academy, Part I (1953)The Artist in Search of an Academy, Part II (1954)Twelve Rules for a New Academy (1957)Is There a New Academy? (1959)IX. Essays on Art HistoryEditor's NoteCycles through the Chinese Landscape (1954)Timeless in Asia (1960)Angkor and Art (1961)Art vs. History (1966)Bibliography

1. 4/5

   A good book if you want to get into Ed Reinhard

   Very detailed and specific, well written book with many interesting conclusions supported by extracts and examples of Reinhardts writing. The language is quite complicated but that is justified.

   Palina P

   03 augusti 2015