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Against the Grain : The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the
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Against the Grain : The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century Paperback - 2000

by Hilton Kramer (Editor); Roger Kimball (Editor)

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  • Title Against the Grain : The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 477
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dee Publisher, Ivan R, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date October 31, 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP81855369
  • ISBN 9781566630702 / 1566630703
  • Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.11 x 5.95 x 1.25 in (23.14 x 15.11 x 3.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Arts, American, Arts and society - History - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94031977
  • Dewey Decimal Code 700.103

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From the rear cover

Since its founding in 1982, The New Criterion has emerged as the foremost voice of critical dissent in the culture wars now raging throughout American society. This book brings together an abundant selection of the magazine's most incisive essays, sparkling examples of wit, clarity, and fierce independence that have made The New Criterion one of our most respected sources of critical opinion. Challenging the radical orthodoxies that have disfigured contemporary intellectual debate, the essays in Against the Grain cover a wide range of controversial subjects, from the philosophy of Michel Foucault to the apocalyptic kitsch of Anselm Kiefer, from the scandals of political correctness and multiculturalism to the state of Latin American literature and politics. Samuel Lipman writes on the future of classical music; Hilton Kramer on the plight of the art museum today; Joseph Epstein on the poet C. P. Cavafy; Roger Kimball on the treason of the intellectuals; and Harvey Mansfield on the continuing significance of the original debate over the Constitution.

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/1995, Page 137
  • Library Journal, 03/01/1995, Page 68
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/23/1995, Page 66

About the author

Hilton Kramer is editor of The New Criterion and author, most recently, of The Twilight of the Intellectuals. Roger Kimball is managing editor of The New Criterion and author of The Long March, Experiments Against Reality, and Tenured Radicals. Together Messrs. Kramer and Kimball have also edited The Future of the European Past, and The Betrayal of Liberalism.

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