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Books The reenchantment of art, Has modernism failed?, Conversations before the end of time, Living the magical life, Progress in art Similar Lucy R Lippard, René Magritte, Edward Lucie‑Smith, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, John Heskett | ||
Suzi Gablik, born in 1934 in New York, New York, is an American artist, a prolific and influential visionary author and art critic, and a professor of art history and art criticism. She lives in Blacksburg, Virginia. A prevailing theme for Gablik, enunciated in Has Modernism Failed? and quoted in the Kirkus Reviews article about her book The Reenchantment of Art, states, "Since the enlightenment . . . our view of what is real has been organized around the hegemony of a technical and materialist world view . . . we no longer have any sense of having a soul."
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Education and art training
In 1951, after a summer studying at Black Mountain College, she entered Hunter College where she studied with Robert Motherwell and received her B.A in 1955. After working primarily as a painter, she had her first solo show in 1966. Later, she turned her attention to collage.
Work as art critic
Gablik is a writer of articles for Art in America (for which she was the London correspondent for fifteen years), Art News (1962-1966), Times Literary Supplement, The New Criterion and web blogs Chapters 2 and 5, the second and last chapters of her book Has Modernism Failed? are included in an aesthetics online study guide. The book was published in print in 1982 by Thames & Hudson. In her article "Deconstructing aesthetics:Toward a responsible art" in New Art Examiner, she contended that "The national framework of aesthetics--which has favored an ontology of objectification, permanence, and egocentricity--has hardened into a presumption that is conserving and reinforcing a reluctance to make art which is inherently communicative and compassionately responsive."
Author
Her first book was Pop Art Redefined, co-authored with art critic John Russell. In 1977 she published Other books include:The Reenchantment of Art, Has Modernism Failed, Conversations before the End of Time, Living the Magical Life: An Oracle Adventure, and She wrote the book Magritte about the Belgian surrealist René Magritte while living with the Magrittes. Some of her articles are interviews with other artists, art critics, or philosophers such as Richard Shusterman. She has also written articles for exhibition catalogues of shows which she has curated.
Teaching
Gablik taught at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts and Washington and Lee University and lectured at many others. In 1976 - 1979 she participated in US International Communications Agency lecture tours in India, Hungary, Pakistan, and countries of South Asia. She participated in a March 7, 2013 podcast on the subject of "Solastalgia and Creative Response" with Angelo Manno and Glenn Albrecht. She gave a presentation at the Fall 1986 Mountain Lake Symposium on "Postmodernism and the Question of Meaning: For a New Spiritualism."
Biography
The daughter of Anthony J. Gablik and Geraldine Schwarz Gablik, Suzi Gablik was born in New York, New York in 1934. She "hung out with Jasper Johns" and was an acquaintance of John Cage, Ad Rhinehart, Ray Johnson, and Robert Rauschenberg. In 2014, she donated a collection of her papers, lectures, notes, and other files to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.