Volume 21, Number 1 · February 7, 1974
Overtaking the Avant-Garde
By James Ackerman
The Age of the Avant-Garde: An Art Chronicle of 1956-1972
by Hilton Kramer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 565 pp., $12.95
Discovering the Present: Three Decades in Art, Culture, and Politics
by Harold Rosenberg
University of Chicago, 336 pp., $10.00
Like most collections of critical essays, the books under review are composed of pieces that have been written over many years, in Kramer's case for the New York Times and, in Rosenberg's, for magazines ranging from Partisan Review to Vogue. Almost all the essays in both books derive from events, such as art exhibits, the appearance of new books, or the organization of a symposium on an issue of current interest, so that the authors' views cannot be as coherently presented as they might be had particular objects and themes been chosen for examination.
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