The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

December 1984 Volume 3, Number 4  

Features

The “Primitivism” conundrum
by Hilton Kramer
On “Primitivism in 20th-Century Art” at MOMA.

Guy Davenport: fiction à la Fourier
by Bruce Bawer

Zola & Cézanne: the early years
by Frederick Brown

Van Gogh at the Met
by Jed Perl
On “Van Gogh at Arles”.


Poems

Boardwalk
by Herbert Morris


Music

Pops in Portland, “Elektra” in San Francisco
by Samuel Lipman


Theater

What’s so great about the RSC?
by Mimi Kramer


Art

Brice Marden’s abstraction
by Eric Gibson


Books

A printmaker and his themes
by Creighton Gilbert
A review of The Prints of Lucas van Leyden and his Contemporaries by Ellen S. Jacobowitz and Stephanie L. Stepanek.

The American Corinne
by James Tuttleton
A review of The Letters of Margaret Fuller, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth.

Christ made male
by Charles Dempsey
A review of The Sexuality of Christ by Leo Steinberg.

Hippique Buddha
by Philip Young
A review of Confessions of a Harvard Man by Harold Stearns.

Humanist and scholar
by René Wellek
On Tributes: Interpreters of our Cultural Tradition by E. H. Gombrich.


Notebook

“Art” for the Eighties?
by Roger Kimball