Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American critic Donald Kuspit.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Donald Kuspit is an American art critic and a poet, known for his practice of psychoanalytic art criticism. He has published on the subjects of Avant-garde aesthetics, Postmodernism, Modern art, and Conceptual art.
Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the sum of its material characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday life.
The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's hidden hand that holds the mirror up, the impersonal mechanism by means of which matter makes its perfection manifest.
Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for
we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.
Collage is a demonstration of the many becoming the one, with the one never fully resolved because of the many that continue to impinge upon it.