{"id":2647,"date":"2015-11-30T17:22:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T22:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2017-04-06T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:07:49","slug":"donald-kuspit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/donald-kuspit\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Kuspit"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3270\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2647-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/donaldkuspit.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/donaldkuspit.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/donaldkuspit.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2649 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/donaldkuspit1.jpg?resize=198%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"donaldkuspit\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/donaldkuspit1.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/donaldkuspit1.jpg?w=481&amp;ssl=1 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>Donald Kuspit is one of America\u2019s most distinguished art critics.\u00a0 In 1983 he received the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism, given by the College Art Association.\u00a0 In 1993 he received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from Davidson College, in 1996 from the San Francisco Art Institute, and in 2007 from the New York Academy of Art.\u00a0 In 1997 the National Association of the Schools of Art and Design presented him with a Citation for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts.\u00a0 In 1998 he received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u00a0 In 2000 he delivered the Getty Lectures at the University of Southern California.\u00a0 In 2005 he was the Robertson Fellow at the University of Glasgow.\u00a0 In 2008 he received the Tenth Annual Award for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Apocalypse-Distance-Donald-B-Kuspit\/dp\/1581150504\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1448914484&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=apocalypse+donald+kuspit\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2652 alignright\" 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fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation, and Asian Cultural Council, among other organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Kuspit is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and has been the A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University (1991-97).\u00a0 He is also Senior Critic at the New York Academy of Art.\u00a0 He has doctorates in philosophy (University of Frankfurt) and art history (University of Michigan), as well as degrees from Columbia University, Yale University, and Pennsylvania State University.\u00a0 He has also completed the course of study at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical Center.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2651 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/onthegatheringemptiness1.jpg?resize=193%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"onthegatheringemptiness\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/onthegatheringemptiness1.jpg?resize=193%2C300&amp;ssl=1 193w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/onthegatheringemptiness1.jpg?resize=658%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 658w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/onthegatheringemptiness1.jpg?resize=624%2C972&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/onthegatheringemptiness1.jpg?w=813&amp;ssl=1 813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/>He has written numerous articles, exhibition reviews, catalogue essays, lectured at many universities and art schools, curated many exhibitions, and edited several series for UMI Research Press and the Cambridge University Press.\u00a0 He was the editorial advisor for European Art 1900-50 and art criticism for the Encyclopedia Britannica (16<sup>th<\/sup> edition), and wrote the entry on art criticism for it.\u00a0 Among his books are <em>The Critic Is Artist:\u00a0 The Intentionality of Art<\/em> (Ann Arbor:\u00a0 UMI Research Press, 1984); <em>The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist<\/em> (New York:\u00a0 Cambridge University Press, 1993; in German, Klagenfurt:\u00a0 Ritter Verlag, 1995); <em>The Dialectic of Decadence<\/em> (New York:\u00a0 Stux Press, 1993; reissued, New York:\u00a0 Allworth Press, 2000); <em>The New Subjectivism:\u00a0 Art in the 1980s <\/em>(Ann Arbor:\u00a0 UMI Research Press, 1988; reissued, New York:\u00a0 Da Capo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gods-Other-Beings-Donald-Kuspit\/dp\/0956103871\/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2653 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thegodsandotherbeings.jpg?resize=194%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"thegodsandotherbeings\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thegodsandotherbeings.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thegodsandotherbeings.jpg?resize=663%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 663w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thegodsandotherbeings.jpg?resize=624%2C964&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thegodsandotherbeings.jpg?w=760&amp;ssl=1 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>Press, 1993); <em>Signs of Psyche in Modern and Post-Modern Art<\/em> (New York:\u00a0 Cambridge University Press, 1994; in Spanish, Madrid:\u00a0 Akal, 2002); <em>Idiosyncratic Identities:\u00a0 Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde<\/em> (New York:\u00a0 Cambridge University Press, 1996); <em>The Rebirth of Painting in the Late Twentieth Century<\/em> (New York:\u00a0 Cambridge University Press, 2000); <em>Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art<\/em> (New York:\u00a0 Cambridge University Press, 2000); <em>Redeeming Art:\u00a0 Critical Reveries<\/em> (New York:\u00a0 Allworth Press, 2000); <em>The End of Art<\/em> (New York:\u00a0 Cambridge University Press, 2004; in Chinese, University of Pejing Press; in Korean, University of Seoul Press; in Polish, Gdansk Museum of Art; in Spanish, Akal; in Turkish, Istanbul:\u00a0 Metis); <em>A Critical History of Twentieth Century Art<\/em> (New York:\u00a0 Artnet, 2006, ebook; in Serbian, Belgrade:\u00a0 Art Press, 2011); <em>Psychodrama:\u00a0 Modern Art as Group Therapy<\/em> (London:\u00a0 Ziggurat Press, 2010).\u00a0 He has written monographs on individual artists, serves as a contributing editor for several art magazines, and published several books of poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/donaldkuspit.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listDonald Kuspit is one of America\u2019s most distinguished art critics.\u00a0 In 1983 he received the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism, given by the College Art Association.\u00a0 In 1993 he received an honorary doctorate in fine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academic","8":"category-writers","9":"category-curator","10":"category-poet"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/thegodsandotherbeings.jpg?fit=760%2C1174&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-GH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}