Donald Burton Kuspit

Contributor

BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Art History and Philosophy, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Contributing Editor to Art Forum, Sculpture, and others. Editor of Art Criticism. Author of numerous articles, exhibition reviews, and catalog essays.

Primary Contributions (1)

Painting by Gustave Courbet showing the artist at his easel in a crowded studio, surrounded by figures including a nude model, onlookers, and a child with a white dog.

Art criticism

Art criticism, the analysis and evaluation of works of art. More subtly, art criticism is often tied to theory; it is interpretive, involving the effort to understand a particular work of art from a theoretical perspective and to establish its significance in the history of art. Many cultures have…