Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flat-bed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The last, which Francine du Plessix Gray called "a tour de force of critical method," is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of Johns' work ever written. This edition includes a new preface and a handful of additional illustrations.

About the Author
Leo Steinberg is the Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion and Encounters with Rauschenberg, both published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as Michelangelo's Last Paintings and Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper.

Reviews
"The art book of the year, if not of the decade and possibly of the century.... The significance of this volume lies not so much in the quality of its insights - although the quality is very high and the insights are important - as in the richness, precision, and elegance of its style.... A meeting with the mind of Leo Steinberg is one of the most enlightening experiences that contemporary criticism affords." - Alfred Frankenstein, Art News "Not only one of the most lucid and independent minds among art critics, but a profound one." - Robert Motherwell "These essays are... part of the reality of contemporary art, and the book is a cultural event in its own right... a force in the spirit of our times." - Arthur C. Danto, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"



Book Information
ISBN 9780226771854
Author Leo Steinberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Weight(grams) 992g
Dimensions(mm) 26mm * 19mm * 3mm