Conservative Art Anthology—Against The Grain—NEW CRITERION—Kimball

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A (Hard-to-Find) Trade Paperback Edition of: • “AGAINST THE GRAIN: THE NEW CRITERION on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century”(Ivan R. Dee, 1995) • EDITORS: HILTON KRAMER & ROGER KIMBALL • “It would be a shame if the audience for this collection were confined to NEW CRITERION subscribers. Broadminded readers will find an illuminating perspective in many of the 44 pieces.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “As a critical periodical THE NEW CRITERION is probably more consistently worth reading than any other magazine in English.” —JULIAN SYMONS, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT • “The hunger for beauty, for perfection of form, is as organic as the hunger for justice. To subordinate one to the other, or ignore one for the sake of the other, is, as KRAMER and KIMBALL warn, a prescription for universal mediocrity.” —GEORGE SCIALABBA • Content includes: • John Simon on Vladimir Nabokov • Joseph Epstein on C.P. Cavafy • Guy Davenport on Gertrude Stein • Brooke Allen on G.B. Shaw • Brad Leithauser on A.E. Housman • John Gross on Max Beerbohm • Christopher Ricks on “The Battle of the Books” • Samuel Lipman on Walter Gieseking • James Tuttleton on Frederick Douglass • Hilton Kramer on Mary McCarthy • Edward Shils on Harold Laski • Karen Wilkins on Louise Bourgeois • Jed Perl on Mike Kelley • Terry Teachout on Houston Baker • Roger Kimball on “The Perversions of Michael Foucault” • H.J. Kaplin on “Jean Genet: The Apostle of Inversion” • Etc. • For other details, please see below. • TITLE: “AGAINST THE GRAIN: THE NEW CRITERION on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century” EDITORS: HILTON KRAMER & ROGER KIMBALL TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK PAGES: 234 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: IVAN R. DEE, INC. (Chicago), 1995 EDITION: IMPLIED* FIRST US EDITION, FIRST PRINTING *In the style of university presses, there is no explicit data listed. ISBN: 1-56663-070-3 CONDITION of WRAPS: VERY GOOD. Light shelf-wear on edges. Light creasing on front & back. Spine is sunned, slightly. Top corners are dog-eared. CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD. Spine is tight. Text-block edges have lights scratching & smudging. Light spot on FFEP. Though lightly tanned, pages are, overall, bright & clean. Here & there: Some unobtrusive signs of (normal) handling.SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy container. THANK YOU! ABOUT THIS TITLE: “It would be a shame if the audience for this collection were confined to NEW CRITERION subscribers. Broadminded readers will find an illuminating perspective in many of the 44 pieces culled from the magazine's past half-dozen years. [THE ESSAYISTS] particularly rail against the pursuit of philosophy without truth; against great lives deprived of their greatness; against visual art abstracted from the object, demonstrating that what is left is often meaningless rhetoric. Occasionally, writers indulge in a bit of bombast themselves (sometimes to undeniably funny effect as in KIMBALL’s discussion of MICHEL FOUCAULT’s fame in American universities ‘where hermetic arguments about sex and power are pursued with risible fecklessness by the hirsute and untidy'’), but even when one disagrees with their positions, one still has to admire the grace and erudition with which they are presented.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “This collection of essays and reviews from the New Criterion's last six years represents both the best and the worst that ideologically charged criticism has to offer…. To their credit, these embittered critics on the right have functioned as public intellectuals, writing for common readers and not just one another. At their best, they have debunked some of the worst trends within the university today…. That political correctness pervades the cultural elite is a given among these writers…. Not all the career assessments are negative: Included are definitive essays on FREDERICK DOUGLASS, T.E. LAWRENCE, and MAX BEERBOHM—all of which cut through the obfuscations of academic critics. The worst note is struck by the editors, who would do well to subject their work to someone else's editorial scrutiny. Otherwise, an invaluable introduction to this most necessary of journals.” —KIRKUS REVIEW ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. 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