Other criteria. Face to face with the art of the 20th century

A collection of articles on the art of the 20th century, compiled and first published in 1972 by the outstanding American art score Leo Steinberg (1920, Moscow - 2011, New York), is one of its most famous books, is regularly reprinted and included in the obligatory lists of literature for art students faculties around the world. Analyzing with the thoroughness of the expert and insight of the visionary the work of Auguste Rodin and Pablo Picasso, Jasper Jones and Robert Raushenberg, raising theoretical and methodological issues of studying the art of the past and present, Steinberg emphasizes the need for new criteria for evaluating art works, made on the agenda by modernism, and shows what kind of modernism, and shows what These criteria could be. The book is the first major publication of Steinberg"s works in Russian