![]() ![]() ![]() I'm not the only one to do so, to site but one example. I'm going to defend responsible use of psychoanalysis to interpret art. If you know anything about the Postmodernists, there is no doubt that Fried is talking off his ass. If you listen to Kimball it does seem like Fried's talking off his ass. I shouldn't talk, really, because I didn't read any of Fried's books, nor am I going to pick up any of them. Kimball attacks a named-chair Professor Michael Fried for his obdurate prose, for reading posmodernized Freud into Courbet's realist work and overall sleaziness. Then we get to the first chapter "Psychoanalyzing Courbet" and that's where he gets himself in trouble. The little teaser about politicizing Winslow Homer included in the intro made my day. ![]() I agree that art history should be first and foremost about art. ![]() The way Kimball pokes fun at the impenetrable language and the basic fallacies of the postmodern scholarship is priceless. lefty political causes and critics' overgrown egos. I loved the introduction where Kimball promised a discussion of how contemporary art scholarship subordinates art to misc. ModestproposalsI'm reading Roger Kimball's "Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Subotages Art." The title is promising, although given the contents of the book so far, "How Postmodernism is an Exercise in Intellectual Masturbation" is a more appropriate subtitle. ![]()
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