Max Kozloff (born 1933) is an American art historian,

art critic An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating art. Their written critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism and they are published in newspapers, magazines, books, exhibition brochures, and catalogue ...

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 Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...

. Kozloff received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 1968 and an Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in 1990.

Early life and education

Kozloff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1953. Between 1954 and 1956 he served in the U.S. Army, before returning to the University of Chicago for his M.A. degree in 1958. He joined New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in 1959 to pursue a Ph.D. degree, and was subsequently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for 1962–1963.

Career

He started his career with a teaching position at New York University (NYU), and joined '' The Nation'' as art critic in 1961, where he worked until 1968, and ''Art International''. In 1964, he left NYU without a degree and began working at '' Artforum'' as an associate editor. In 1965 he received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and in 1966, received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism from the College Art Association of America. He became ''Artforums contributing editor in 1967 and rose up to become its executive editor between 1975 and 1977. Meanwhile in 1976, he became an art photographer, and in the following years held numerous shows and became a photography critic. He joined the faculty of School of Visual Arts in 1989. He also remained a faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.

Personal life

Kozloff married the artist Joyce Blumberg in 1967. In 1968, he signed the " Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War."Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, 1968 ''New York Post''

Publications

* ''Jasper Johns'', Abrams, 1972. * ''Cubism/Futurism'' (1973). * ''Photography & fascination: Essays'' (1979). * ''Leon Levinstein: the moment of exposure''. National Gallery of Canada, 1995. . * ''Cultivated Impasses: Essays on the Waning of the Avant-Garde, 1964–1975'' (2000). * ''New York: Capital of Photography'' (2002). . * ''The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900'' Phaidon, 2007. .

Awards

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

from the

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been ...

, New York City *1990: Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography, New York City

References

External links

Entry on Kozloff at Dictionary of Art Historians
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