Table of Contents

Preface: Joseph Masheck Reintroducing Joseph Masheck: Different Forms of Formalism and the Geometry of Humanism David L. Craven Critical Thought: 1. The "Space... in Which I Find Myself": Kant on the Origin of Spatial Form Terry F. Godlove; 2. Ruskin's Critical Pathos Andrew Ballantyne; 3. Cezanne's Oedipal Complex: His Father's Throne and His Lover's Son Brian Winkenweder; 4. Two Bodies Steven Henry Madoff; Architecture in Cultural Space: 5. The "Solomonic Window" in Scotland and At Large Ian Campbell; 6. Le Corbusier's Middleground Deborah Gans; 7. Adhering to the Text: Notes on the Observation and Description of a House in a Frantisek Lesak 1957. Central and East-European Modernism: 8. Nationality and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Baltic Art S. A. Mansbach; 9. Framing Movement: Kirchner in Berlin Charles W. Haxthausen; 10. Utopian Violence: El Lissitzky's Constructivist Victory Over the Sun Christine Poggi Postwar Modernism: 11. Revisiting Indeterminacy: On Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and the New York Painters David Ryan; 12. Drawing on Mies's Wall in Houston Alan Johnston; 13. Afterlife of the Black Quadrilateral Marjorie Welish; Style and Habitus: 14. Men of Saturn: Styling "Bohemian" Melancholy in the Seventeenth Century Martha Hollander; 15. Modernist Art-School High Jinks in 1908 Margaret Stewart; 16. Non-Mimetic "Imitations": The Modernist Topos of Barbarian Numismatic Copies Joseph Masheck

About the Author

Joseph Masheck, studied art and architectural history under Meyer Schapiro, Rudolf Wittkower, and Dorothea Nyberg, at Columbia. Editor-in-chief of Artforum in the late '70s, he has taught at Barnard, the Visual Studies program at Harvard, and Hofstra; and been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at St. Edmunds College, Cambridge University.