© Columbia University Press
Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life
October, 2007
Paper, 408 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14115-4
$22.50
/ £13.00
Preface to the Columbia University Press Edition • ix
Preface • 00
Introduction: Art Criticism After the End of Art • 3
Whitney Biennial 2000 • 19
"Making Choices" at MoMA • 27
Chardin • 36
Tilman Riemenschneider • 44
Damien Hirst • 53
Barbara Kruger • 61
Yoko Ono • 69
Sean Scully • 77
Paul McCarthy • 85
Sol LeWitt • 93
Renee Cox: Yo Mama's Last Supper • 101
William Kentridge • 109
Picasso Érotique • 117
Art and 9/11 • 125
Philip Guston • 132
Philip Guston: The Nixon Drawings • 139
Alberto Giacometti • 147
Norman Rockwell • 155
Surrealism and Eroticism • 163
Artemisia Gentileschi • 172
Gerhard Richter • 180
Barnett Newman and the Heroic Sublime • 188
Joan Mitchell • 197
The Art of 9/11: One Year Later • 205
Reflections on Robert Mangold's Curled Figure and Column
Paintings • 213
The Park Avenue Cubists • 219
Leonardo's Drawings • 226
Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle • 234
Christian Schad and the Sachlichkeit of Sex • 242
Kazimir Malevich • 251
Max Beckmann • 258
Whitney Biennial 2004 • 265
John Currin • 272
Dieter Roth • 279
Banality and Celebration: The Art of Jeff Koons • 286
Two Installations by Joshua Neustein • 303
Kalliphobia in Contemporary Art; Or: What Ever Happened to
Beauty? • 321
The World as Warehouse: Fluxus and Philosophy • 333
Painting and Politics • 348
The Fly in the Fly Bottle: The Explanation and Critical Judgment
of Works of Art • 355
Index • 369