The End of Art
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The End of Art.
By Donald Kuspit
183 pages, illustrated
2004
Published by Cambridge Univ. Press in New York
In The End of Art, Donald Kuspit argues that art is over because it has lost is aesthetic import. Tracing the demise of aesthetic experience to the works and theory of Marcel Duchamp and Barnett Newman, Kuspit argues that devaluation is inseparable from the entropic character of modern art, and that anti-aesthetic postmodern art is it’s final state. In reaction to the emptiness and stagnancy of postart, Kuspit signals the aesthetic and human future that lies with the New Old Masters.