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# Donald Kuspit

(1935)   Art Historian

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Donald Kuspit is an art historian.

## Quick Facts About Donald Kuspit

Born March 26, 1935

Profession Art Historian

## About Donald Kuspit

American art critic... \| Donald Kuspit is an American art critic and poet, known for his practice of psychoanalytic art criticism. He has published on the subjects of avant-garde aesthetics, postmodernism, modern art, and conceptual art.

##  Quotes by Donald Kuspit

> [Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kuspit/van-gogh-among-others-believed-in-the-religion-of-art-which-whatever/)

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> [Collage is a demonstration of the many becoming the one, with the one never fully resolved because of the many that continue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kuspit/collage-is-a-demonstration-of-the-many-becoming-the-one-with-the-one/)

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> [The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kuspit/the-work-of-art-is-a-revelation-of-the-innate-goodness-of-matter/)

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> [Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for we can see ourselves empathically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kuspit/reichert-offers-us-a-heracleitean-stream-of-self-reflection-into/)

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