Hilton Kramer
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Hilton Kramer (born 1928, Gloucester, Massachusetts ) is a U.S. conservative art critic and cultural commentator, one of the first critics to pronounce the death of the avant-garde.
Over the course of his career, Kramer came to disagree with the left of center political views and what he perceived as the aesthetic nihilism characterizing a large majority of 20th century working artists and art critics. This change of position led to his resignation from The New York Times in 1982 to found The New Criterion, now a prominent conservative magazine for which Kramer is, with Roger Kimball, co-editor and publisher. Kramer took a strongly anti-Stalinist stance in his 2003 review of Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A History. In his 1999 The Twilight of the Intellectuals, he defended the anti-Stalinist views of art critic Clement Greenberg.
Works
- 1973. The Age of the Avant-Garde. (ISBN 0-374-10238-4).
- 1985. The Revenge of the Philistines. (ISBN 0-02-918470-3).
- 1997 (coedited with Roger Kimball). The Future of the European Past. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee.
- 1999. The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Culture and Politics in the Era of the Cold War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. {ISBN 1-56663-222-6
- 2002 (coedited with Roger Kimball). The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee (ISBN 1-56663-465-2).
- 2003, "Remembering the Gulag" (review of Anne Applebaum, 2003. Gulag: A History, Doubleday), The New Criterion 21 (9):
- 2006 The Triumph of Modernism: The Art World, 1985-2005 (ISBN 1566637082)
