Max Kozloff
Max Kozloff (b. 1933 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American Art Historian, art critic of modern art and photographer. He has been art editor at The Nation, and Executive Editor of Artforum. His essay, "American Painting During the Cold War" is of particular importance to the criticism on American Abstract Expressionism.
Early life and education
He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1953. Between 1954-1956 he served in the U.S. Army, before returning to the University of Chicago for his M. A. in 1958.
Career
He also remained a faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.
He received the 1968 Guggenheim Fellowship and later the Infinity Award for Writing in 1990, given by the International Center of Photography. [1]
Selected Works
- Jasper Johns, Abrams, 1972.
- Cubism/Futurism (1973)
- Photography & fascination: Essays (1979)
- Cultivated Impasses: Essays on the Waning of the Avant-Garde, 1964-1975 (2000)
- New York: Capital of Photography (2002). ISBN 0-300-09445-0.
References
- ^ "Infinity Awards > Past Recipients 1985-1995". International Center of Photography website.