Macrel Duchamp: The Creative Act - Leo Steinberg: Contemporary Art and the Plight of its Public - E.C. Goossen: The Big Canvas - Sam Hunter: New Directions in American Painting - Alan Solomon: The New Art - Lawrence Alloway: Notes on Op Art - Henry Geldzahles: The Art Audience and the Critic - Clement Greenberg: Modernist Painting - Dore Ashton: In Praise of Illusion - Max Kozloff: Crtiical Schizophrenia and the Intentionalist Method - Allen Leep: Anti-Art and Criticism - Susan Sontang: Non.Writing and the Arte Scene - Thomas B. Hess: A tale of Two Cities - Nicolas Calas: An Now the Sphinz - Lucy R. Lippard: New York Letter 1965: Reinhardt, Duchamp, Morris . Ad Reinhardt: Writtings - John Cage: Jaspers Johns: Stories and Ideas - Leo Steinberg: Paul Brach´s Pictures - Samuel Adams Gree: Andy Warhol - Gregory Battcock: Humanism and Reality - Thek and Warhol - Kenneth King: Toward a Trans-Literal and Trans-Technical Dance Theater - Martin Ries: Endowments for the Great Society.

"Today´s critic is begininning to seen almost as essential to the development -indeed, the identification- of art as the artist himself. The purpose of this volume is to bring together some of the best recent critical essays on the new art in the United States. Most of these articles date from after 1960, and were originally published in periodicals and museum catalogues. But in keeping with the new role of the critic as interpreter, the pieces included in this anthology do more than simply describe, or even define their subject; their authors are actively anbd consciously engaged in the preparation of a new aesthetic. This is a unique collection that will be indispensable to all who which to understand more about the new art in America." contraportada