A collection of the essays of art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl, which explores his thoughts on individual contemporary artists, their work, events and ethics in the art world and new, creative directions.
Peter Schjeldahl is art critic for the Village Voice and contributing editor for Art in America. MaLin Wilson is an art critic, editor, and independent curator working in New Mexico. Robert Storr, an artist and writer, is currently a curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Robert StorrThe Hydrogen Jukebox: Terror, Narcissism, and ArtRothko and BeliefEdvard Munch: The Missing MasterI Missed PunkA Book by Larry RiversWarhol and Class ContentDubuffet, 1980First Voice ColumnClement GreenbergExxon Exhibition at the GuggenheimJulian Schnabel and Susan RothenbergArshile GorkyL.A. Demystified! Art and Life in the Eternal PresentAffairs of the HeatDisney AnimatorsRealism AgainH. C. WestermannOnly Connect: Bruce Nauman"Les Drippings" in Paris: The Jackson Pollock RetrospectiveCindy ShermanDavid SalleWhy New French Art Is LousyWillem de KooningRobert Smithson's WritingsDocumenta 7Howard FinsterClemente to Marden to KieferLeon GolubDecade of WondersThe Grant Wood RevivalOn Art and Artists: Peter SchjeldahlEdouard ManetBalthusIn Defense of Artistic FashionMinimalismPhilip GustonEric FischlEd Ruscha: Traffic and LaughterTo PicoThe Daemon and Sigmar PolkeAdrian Saxe and the Smart PotThe Immigrant StrainWelcome to HelgalandA Visit to the Salon of Autumn 1986Our KieferHopperesqueMike KelleyPaintings by AboriginesJeff KoonsCourbetDe K.ooning AloneTreason of ClerksVelazquezBaselitz and KippenbergerBibliography of Peter Schjeldahl's Writings on ArtIndex