Fifteen Years Ago Hilton Kramer Founded
One of the Most Influential Periodicals in America·
Today, He's Offering You a Chance to Read
It
-- FREE!
Are you interested in a broad range
of creative endeavor, from literature,
painting, music, and architecture to
theater, dance, and performance art?
Would you welcome spirited argu–
ment that engages cultural trendiness
with uncompromising intellectual
honesty and independence?
will you accept a free copy of a jour–
nal that is literate, thought-provoking,
and immensely fun to read?
If "YES" is your answer, we are
pleased to introduce you to
The New
Criterion .
For
15
years
The New
Criterion 's
commitment to tbe bigbest
critical standards has been an eloquent
antidote to the political ortbodoxy
dominating our cultural );fe. MontI,
after month, it serves up bonest
commentary and criticism on theater,
the visual arts, literature, music,
poetry, dance, and other points of
cultural interest.
Bold, Articulate, Outspoken
It all began wben Hilton Kramer
dared to "disturb tbe universe" of
contemporary arts and letters. After
leaving his long-beld position as
New
York Times
cbief art critic, Kramer
started a literary-intellectual journal
for tbe rest of us -- people wbo love
literature and tbe arts but refuse to
follow the lead of a single-minded
critical "elite."
Today's
New Criterion
is no less com–
mitted to independence: in its critical
judgments\ in its expression of opin–
ions and ideas, in its refusal to give
ground to today's arbiters of artistic
•Asurvey of academics. writers. and editors published
by Princeton University Press cited The New Criterion
as one of the Top 10 most influential periodicals among
American intellectuals.
and literary tastes. Others have taken
notice:
"Not since H.L. Mencken and
The
American Mercury
bas literary
America seen so mucb fur fly,"
says
The Boston Review
"... tbe best art magazine and a
provocative force in other cultural
areas," says
The Wall Street Journal
"...stimulates, elucidates, and infu–
riates," says
The New Art Examiner
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