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American art critic and writer

Gregory Battcock (1937-1980) was an American art historian, art critic, and painter from New York City who wrote a series of Dutton paperbacks that anthologized critical writings on new art tendencies in contemporary art, such as Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Video Art,and Super Realism. His first anthology, The New Art, was published in 1966 and revised in 1973. Idea Art: A Critical Anthology, about conceptual art, was his most impactful book.

Life and career

Battcock attended Michigan State University, the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, and Hunter College. He earned his Ph.D. from New York University in 1978 with a dissertation titled Constructivism and Minimal Art: Some Aesthetic, Theoretical and Critical Correlations.

He wrote frequently for the art magazines Art & Artists and Domus. Battcock taught fine art at William Paterson College and was art critic for the New York Free Press. In the late 1960s and early-’70s, Battcock contributed columns on art and life to tabloids such as Gay and the New York Review of Sex.

He was editor-in-chief of Arts Magazine (1973-1975). In 1977 he co-published the tabloid Trylon & Perisphere with Ron Whyte that included satiricart criticism and soft-core eroticism. He appeared in the Andy Warhol films Eating Too Fast, Horse, and Batman Dracula.

Battcock was murdered in Puerto Rico on December 25, 1980.

Books

  • Idea Art: A Critical Anthology
  • Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology
  • The New Art: A Critical Anthology
  • The New American Cinema: A Critical Anthology
  • Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Critical Anthology of the New Music
  • The Art of Performance: A Critical Anthology (edited with Robert Nickas)
  • New Artists Video
  • Super Realism
  • Why Art: Casual Notes on the Aesthetics of the Immediate Past
  • New Ideas in Art Education

See also

Notes and references

  1. Young, Vernon, I’ve Been Reading These Film Critics, Hudson Review 21 (Summer, 1968) pp. 337-344
  2. Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Conceptual Art 1962–1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institutions, October 55 (Winter 1990) pp. 105–43
  3. Gregory Battcock by Douglas Davis at Artforum April 1981 VOL. 19, NO.8
  4. ^ TRANSFORMER: GREGORY BATTCOCK By David Joselit at Artforum
  5. David Weinberg, Blood of a Critic: Gregory Battcock’s Rise to Stardom and Fall from Grace, Soho News, October 13, 1981
  6. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 33, Issue 1, Autumn 1974, Pages 109–111, https://doi.org/10.2307/42896, 01 September 1974
  7. Crimp, Douglas, Yvonne Rainer, Muciz Lover, Grey Room no. 22 (Winter, 2006) pp. 48-67
  8. ^ Gregory Battcock papers, 1952-circa 1980
  9. Russell, John (January 16, 1981). "ART PEOPLE; The ride-by subway mural". New York Times. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
  10. Henry, Garritt. “Whole Picture.” Art International’' #15 (December 1971) p. 89
  11. "Police have no clues in slaying of critic - UPI Archives". UPI. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  12. Russell, John, Art People, New York Times January 16, 1981, p. 20

External links

  • Gregory Battcock papers, 1952-circa 1980
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