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Article: American criticism and how it got that way.(Brushes with History: Writing on Art from The Nation, 1865-2001)(Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974)(M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism)
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- Art in America
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- June 1, 2002
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Brushes with History: Writing on Art from The Nation, 1865-2001, edited by Peter G. Meyer, New York, Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2001; 531 pages, $19.95.
Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974, by Amy Newman, New York, Soho Press, 2000; 559 pages, $42.
M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism, edited by Susan Bee and Mira Schor, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2001; 467 pages, $69.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.
The first entry in Brushes with History, a hefty anthology of art-related articles from the Nation, isn't a piece of art criticism but a fulminating editorial from 1865 against P.T. Barnum's museum ...