Introduction 1. Clement Greenberg: ‘A Critic on the Side of History’ 2. ‘Restoring Modernism to Health’: Michael Fried 3. Rosalind Krauss: ‘A Broader Modernist Sensibility’ 4. ‘A Rigorous Dialectic of Seeing and Reading’: Annette Michelson 5. Harold Rosenberg: Action, Criticism, and History 6. ‘My Secret Life’: Leo Steinberg 7. Lawrence Alloway and the Complex Present Conclusion
Biography
Stephen Moonie is Lecturer in Art History in the Department of Fine Art, Newcastle University.
“…Amid the true strengths of Moonie’s book is its willingness to tackle the critics it selects through a more oblique angle. This hardly evinces anything like wilful eccentricity on his part; far from it. Rather, it testifies to how their reputations has unfortunately been ossified through the interpretative actions of both their defenders and detractors without, however, quite reaching a sophisticated understanding of the deep intellectual positions taken by these critics.”
--Journal of Art Historiography
