The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

June 1991 Volume 9, Number 10  

Notes & Comments

“Culture under siege"—the politics of the Whitney Biennial

PC comes to music
On Richard Taruskin’s New York Times article dismissing Prokofiev’s music as a product of Stalinism.


Features

Seurat, one hundred years later
by Hilton Kramer

Fredric Jameson’s laments
by Roger Kimball

Said’s music
by Samuel Lipman
On Musical Elaborations by Edward Said.

Delacroix at the Met
by Karen Wilkin

The Luther of science?
by Bruce Bawer
On The Alchymist’s Journal & other works by Evan S. Connell.


Poems

What have you taught me, Robert Lowell
by Richard Lourie

Leaving the middle years
by Walter McDonald

Homecomings
by John Drexel


Letter from Paris

Théâtre du printemps
by Renee Winegarten


Art

Stuffed
by Jed Perl
On Mike Kelley at the Hirshhorn.

Fool’s gold: Sigmar Polke & the alchemy of critics
by Eric Gibson


Theater

A crown of withered parsley
by Donald Lyons
On Miss Saigon & other Broadway fare.


Books

Fundamentals of Soviet civilization
by Vasily Rudich
a review of Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History by Andrei Sinyavsky

Hero
by James Bowman
A review of Pericles of Athens & the Birth of Democracy by Donald Kagan.

The art of the deal
by Deborah Solomon
A review of Betty Parsons: Artist, Dealer, Collector by Lee Hall.

Shock of the Hughes
by Tim Hilton
A review of The Shock of the New & Nothing if Not Critical by Robert Hughes.

Shorter notice
by Deborah Rosenthal
Of Mondrian: Flowers by David Shapiro.

Shorter notice
by James Tuttleton
Of The Man Who Was Mark Twain by Guy Cardwell.

Shorter notice
by Carter Wiseman
Of Classical Architecture by Robert Adam.


Notebook

Orphans of utopia
by Mark Falcoff
On the 16th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Crystal City, Va.


Letters

The new “Karamazov”

“The New Shostakovich”

George Gissing