Against the Grain The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century

by Kramer, Hilton; Kimball, Roger

• ISBN13: 9781566630702
• ISBN10: 1566630703
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Summary

An abundant selection of incisive writings from The New Criterion, the magazine that has emerged as the foremost voice of critical dissent in the culture wars. No one who reads this volume can be in any doubt what the cultural war in the U.S. is all about, or who ought to win it. --Paul Johnson, Wall Street Journal

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Treason of the Intellectuals	p. 3
The Culture of Classical Music Today	p. 13
Has Success Spoiled the Art Museum?	p. 34
Robert Hughes and the Flaying of America	p. 45
Literature and Politics in Latin America	p. 51
What Is at Stake in the "Battle of the Books"?	p. 67
Studying the Arts and the Humanities: What Can Be Done?	p. 74
Back to the Sixties with Spin Doctor Graff	p. 82
The Case against Martin Bernal	p. 91
Houston Baker, Jr.: Another Sun Person Heard From	p. 101
The Sobol Report: Multiculturalism Triumphant	p. 109
When Reason Sleeps: The Academy vs. Science	p. 123
Willem de Kooning at 90	p. 137
A Dissent on Kiefer	p. 144
Other People's Music: Corigliano at the Met	p. 153
Jennifer Bartlett and the Crisis of Public Art	p. 165
Stuffed: Mike Kelley at the Hirshhorn	p. 169
The Trouble with "Angels"	p. 173
The Best and the Worst of Louise Bourgeois	p. 179
Betraying a Legacy: The Case of the Barnes Foundation	p. 186
The Perversions of Michel Foucault	p. 195
G.B.S.: The Life of George Bernard Shaw	p. 208
Raymond Williams in Retrospect	p. 222
Tough Buttons: The Difficult Gertrude Stein	p. 233
The Many Lives of Frederick Douglass	p. 236
John Maynard Keynes: The Nietzsche of Economics	p. 251
The Importance of T.E. Lawrence	p. 258
Max Beerbohm: A Prodigy of Parody	p. 276
Walter Gieseking Plays Ravel and Debussy	p. 282
Mary McCarthy and Company	p. 287
A Footnote for Housman	p. 295
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years	p. 307
The "Ecstasy" of Jean Baudrillard	p. 322
Andrew Motion's Philip Larkin	p. 336
C. P. Cavafy: A Poet in History	p. 343
The Poetry of Robert Graves	p. 355
Jean Genet: The Apostle of Inversion	p. 366
The Career of Harold Laski	p. 372
Arnaldo Momigliano and the Human Sources of History	p. 385
"The Two Cultures" Today	p. 391
Selling Henry James	p. 400
O Pioneers! Picasso and Braque 1907-1914	p. 416
A Defense of Translation	p. 425
Returning to the Founders: The Debate on the Constitution	p. 438
Contributors	p. 447
Index	p. 451
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