Articles by Barry Schwabsky

• Goethe’s Nightmare
  • Barry Schwabsky,

  in NLR 91, January-February 2015, pp. 141-147
  Subjects: Aesthetics, China
  

  Barry Schwabsky on Winnie Won Yin Wong, Van Gogh on Demand. How different are Shenzhen trade-painters copying Western artists from the conceptualists using them?

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• Terms of Disparity
  • Barry Schwabsky,

  in NLR 87, May-June 2014, pp. 153-159
  Subjects: Aesthetics, Art
  

  Barry Schwabsky on Jacques Rancière, Aisthesis. Episodes from a history of modern art, from Winckelmann to Mallarmé to Vertov.

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• Under the Flag
  • Barry Schwabsky,

  in NLR 78, November-December 2012, pp. 145-151
  Subjects: Aesthetics, United States
  

  Barry Schwabsky on Anne Wagner, A House Divided: American Art since 1955. Painting and sculpture in the age—and shadow—of US hegemony.

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• Post-Communist Aesthetics
  • Barry Schwabsky,

  in NLR 56, March-April 2009, pp. 154-160
  Subjects: Aesthetics, Soviet Union and Russia
  

  Barry Schwabsky on Groys, Art Power. Essays on aesthetics and politics, founded on the disconcerting insights of late-Soviet conceptualism.

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• Absolute Zero
  • Barry Schwabsky,

  in NLR 44, March-April 2007, pp. 143-149
  Subjects: Art,
  

  Barry Schwabsky on Kirk Varnedoe, Pictures of Nothing. Valedictory Stateside view of abstract art, shorn of its revolutionary beginnings and collective ambitions, from MoMA’s former chief curator.

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