Meyer Schapiro's Jewish Unconscious
Donald Kuspit
In 1994, Margaret Olin, reviewing the fourth volume of Meyer Schapiro's Selected Papers , observed that Schapiro “only seldom addressed [his] Jewish heritage”. Surely, she suggests, it must have influenced his practice art history and criticism. But is at a loss to say how. Olin notes neglect issue all more conspicuous in view fact contemporaries, Jewish-American critics Clement Greenberg Harold Rosenberg, openly viewed modern from perspective. While was one among several heuristic gambits, they often privileged as most revelatory: perspective could disclose what stake or immanent art.
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