Articles by Barry Schwabsky
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Goethe’s Nightmare
NLR 91, January-February 2015, pp. 141-147in
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
NLR 87, May-June 2014, pp. 153-159in
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
NLR 78, November-December 2012, pp. 145-151in
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
NLR 56, March-April 2009, pp. 154-160in
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
NLR 44, March-April 2007, pp. 143-149in
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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