Donald Kuspit (b. March 26, 1935) is an American art critic, poet, and Distinguished Professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts. Kuspit is one of America's most distinguished art critics. He was formerly the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University (1991-1997). He received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism in 1983 (given by the College Art Association). His essay "Reconsidering the Spiritual in Art" appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts.

[edit] Art Criticism

• The New Subjectivism: Art in the 1980s (1988)
• The Inner Voice Visualized: Alfred DeCredico's Abstractions (1991)
• The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist (1993)
• The Dialectic of Decadence (1993)
• The Photography of Albert Renger-Patzsch (1993)
• Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art (1994)
• Primordial Presences: The Sculpture of Karel Appel (1994)
• Health and Happiness in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Art (1996)
• Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde (1996)
• Chihuly (1997)
• Jamali (1997)
• Joseph Raffael (1998)
• Daniel Brush (1998)
• Hans Hartung (1998)
• The Rebirth of Painting in the Late 20th Century (2000)
• Psychostrategies of Avant Garde Art (2000)
• Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries (2000)
• Don Eddy (2002)
• Hunt Slonem (2002)
• Hans Breder (2002)
• Steven Tobin (2003)
• April Gornik (2004)
• The End of Art (2004)

[edit] Poetry

• Self-Refraction (1983)
• Apocalypse with Jewels in the Distance (2000)
• On the Gathering Emptiness (2004)

[edit] External links

• Donald Kuspit The Matrix of Sensations
• A short biography of Kuspit at Blackbird
• Biography of Kuspit at SUNY Stony Brook