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By Daniel T. O'Hara,Michelle Martin,Donald Pease

The American critic William V. Spanos, a pioneer of postmodern concept and co-founder of 1 of its critical organs, the magazine boundary 2, is, within the phrases of A William V. Spanos Reader coeditor Daniel T. O’Hara, every thing that present post-modern conception is accused of now not being: polemical, engaged, prophetic, passionate. proficient via his event as a prisoner of conflict in Dresden, Spanos observed dire con-sequences for all times in modernist aesthetic experiments, and he thereafter imbued his paintings with a confident point ever within the identify of extra lifestyles. A William V. Spanos Reader collects Spanos’s most vital severe essays, delivering either an introduc-tion to his prophetic, visionary paintings and a provocation to the perform of humanistic criticism.

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