Imagining the Present : Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic (Hardcover)

Preface Saul Ostrow  Commentary Richard Kalina  1. Quick Symbols  2. Technology and Sex in Science Fiction: A Note on Cover Art  3. Design as a Human Activity  4. Personal Statement  5. The Arts and the Mass Media   6. The Long Front of Culture  7. City Notes  8. Artists as Consumers  9. Junk Culture  10. Pop Art since 1949  11. Six Painters and the Object  12. The American Sublime  13. The Critic and the Visual Arts  14. Art and the Communications Network  15. Systemic Painting  16. Art and the Expanding Audience  17. Pop Art: The Words  18. The Spectrum of Monochrome  19. Position Paper  20. Anthropology and Art Criticism  21. Systems of Cross-Reference in the Arts: On Translation  22. On Style. An Examination of Roy Lichtenstein’s Development, Despite a New Monograph on the Artist  23. Photo-Realism  24. The Function of the Art Critic  25. Artists as Writers, Part One: Inside Information  26. Realism as a Problem  27. De Kooning: Criticism and Art History  28. The Complex Present  29. Problems of Iconography and Style