Synopsis
Photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch
Preface by Weston Naef
Essay by Donald Kuspit
"Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object "is the first major publication in English on this influential German photographer, who is one of the founders of modern European photography. Amid the climate of intellectual, artistic, and political ferment in Germany between the wars, the idea of "beauty" was being redefined.
À propos de l?auteur
Donald Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics. Winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism, given by the College Art Association, he is a Contributing Editor to Artforum, Sculpture, New Art Examiner, and Tema Celeste magazines, as well as Editor of Art Criticism. Professor of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, he also holds honorary degrees from Davidson College, the San Francisco Institute of Arts, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he has been the A. D. White Professor at-Large at Cornell University. Dr Kuspit has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author and editor of hundreds of articles and books, most recently The Rebirth of Painting in the Late 20th Century and Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art.
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