Draft:Gregory Battcock
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Gregory Battcock (1937-1980) was an American art historian and art critic and painter from New York City. His most important book, about conceptual art, was Idea Art: A Critical Anthology.
Life and career
[edit]Battcock attended Michigan State University, the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, and Hunter College. He earned his Ph.D. from New York University in 1978 with a dissertation titled Constructivism and Minimal Art: Some Aesthetic, Theoretical and Critical Correlations.
He wrote frequently for the art magazines Art & Artists and Domus.[1] Battcock taught fine art at William Paterson College and was art critic for the New York Free Press. He was editor-in-chief of Arts Magazine (1973-1975) and appeared in the Andy Warhol films Eating Too Fast, Horse, and Batman Dracula.
Battcock was murdered in Puerto Rico on December 25, 1980.[1]
Books
[edit]- Why Art: Casual Notes on the Aesthetics of the Immediate Past
- Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Critical Anthology of the New Music
- Idea Art: A Critical Anthology
See also
[edit]Notes and references
[edit]External links
[edit]- [2] Gregory Battcock papers, 1952-circa 1980