Robert Storr. - Review - book review

One is grateful to those who invest in the economically doubtful business of republishing the work of major critics, and Max Kozloff's Cultivated Impasses: Essays on the Waning of the Avant-Garde 1964-1975 (Marsilio) is a welcome rescue operation of just this kind. An American formalist of the old school radicalized by the '60s, Kozloff, now a photographer and only an occasional commentator on the scene, wrote the first monograph on Jasper Johns and was the first to blow the whistle on foreign-policy uses of American-type painting in the '50s. His essays have an unapologetic high-mindedness that holds up well, and the prose is good. Now I don't have to go hunting for him in boxes of moldering Artforums.

Robert Storr is an artist, critic, and a senior curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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