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!
AIe
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 uncom'promising 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
'J1,e New
Criterion.
For
15
years
'J1,e New
Criterion's
commitment to the highest
critical standards has been an eloquent
antidote to the political orthodoxy
dominating our cultural life. Month
after month, it serves up honest
commentary and criticism on theater,
the visual arts, literature, music,
poetry, dance, and other points of
cultural interest.
Bold, Articulate, Outspoken
It all began when HJton Kramer
dared to "disturb the universe" of
contemporary arts and letters. After
leaving his long-held position as
New
York Times
chief art critic, Kramer
started a literary-intellectual journal
for the rest of us -- people who love
literature and the 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
'J1,e
American Mercury
has literary
knerica seen so much fur fly,"
says
'J1,e Boston Review
"...the best art magazine and a
provocative force in other cultural
areas," says
'J1,e Wan Street Journal
"...stimulates, elucidates, and infu–
riates," says
'J1,e New Art Examiner
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