The New Criterion
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February 1989 Volume 7, Number 6  

Features

Studying the arts and humanities: what can be done?
by Hilton Kramer

Berenson, connoisseurship, and the history of art
by S.J. Freedberg

Pierre Monteux and the criterion of success
by Samuel Lipman

Conrad Aiken’s pilgrimage
by Bruce Bawer

Master Courbet
by Jed Perl
On Courbet Reconsidered at the Brooklyn Museum.


Poems

Pieces
by Paul Lake

The black swan at Schloss Benrath
by Robert Phillips

Gulls in frost
by Sandra McPherson

The runners
by Irving Feldman

Decoys
by Leslie Norris


Art

The “Mephistopheles” of sculpture: Medardo Rosso today
by Eric Gibson

Painting like the Old Masters: Odd Nerdrum
by Kenworth W. Moffett


Dance

The inside dope on Ballet Theatre
by Eva Resnikova
On the book Private View by John Fraser.


Books

The doleful legacy of Carlton Beals
by Mark Falcoff
A review of Carlton Beals: A Radical Journalist in Latin America by John A. Britton.

Between decorum and abandon
by Robert Richman
A review of Morning Run by Jonathan Galassi & Poems: New & Selected by Frederick Morgan.


Notebook

Between art and a hard place
by Bradley Bloch
On Art in the 80s & 90s, a lecture by Whitney curator Lisa Phillips, at the Learning Annex.


Letters

The young Poussin

Kingsley Amis