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DONALD KUSPIT Donald Kuspit is one of America’s most distinguished art critics. Winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (1983), given by the College Art Association, Professor Kuspit is a Contributing Editor at Artforum, Artnet Magazine, Sculpture, and Tema Celeste magazines, and the editor of Art Criticism. He has doctorates in philosophy (University of Frankfurt) and art history (University of Michigan), as well as degrees from Columbia University, Yale University, and Pennsylvania State University. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and has been the A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University (1991-97). He is also Senior Critic at the New York Academy of Art. He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation, and Asian Cultural Council, among other organizations. He has written numerous articles, exhibition reviews, and catalogue essays, curated many exhibitions and lectured at many universities and art schools. Professor Kuspit has written more than 30 books. His most recent books are The Cult of the AvantGarde Artist, 1993; The Dialectic of Decadence, 1993; The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980s, 1988; The Photography of Albert Renger-Patzsch, 1993; Signs of Psyche in Modern and Post-Modern Art, 1994; Primordial Presences: The Sculpture of Karel Appel, 1994; Health and Happiness in Twentieth Century Art, 1996; Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde, 1996; Chihuly, 1997; Jamali, 1997; Joseph Raffael, 1998; Daniel Brush, 1998; Hans Hartung, 1998; The Rebirth of Painting in the Late Twentieth Century, 2000; Psychostrategies of Avant-Garde Art, 2000; Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries, 2000; Don Eddy, 2002; Hunt Slonem, 2002; Hans Breder, 2002; Steven Tobin, 2003; Mel Ramos, 2004; The End of Art, 2004; April Gornik, 2005; Cristobal Gabarron, 2005; Marlene Yu, 2005; Horst Antes, 2005; A Critical History of Twentieth Century Art, 2006; Psychodrama: Modern Art as Group Therapy, 2010. He has also written Clement Greenberg, Art Critic; Eric Fischl; Louise Bourgeois; Leon Golub: Existentialist/Activist Painter; Alex Katz: Night Paintings; and The Critic is Artist: The Intentionality of Art.