A new book, The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas, looks at the expansive collection and defining criticism of the ground-breaking art critic
teinberg was looking at copies of famous works, and how they helped reveal the artist’s choices and intentions,” said Holly Borham, an expert in art prints and a curator at the Blanton Museum of Arts in Austin. Bohman spoke with me about how the art critic Leo Steinberg, who broke ground in the 1960s with his ideas about pop art and Renaissance masters, arrived at his discoveries through his giant collection of art prints.
Borham shared how Steinberg, in part, built his reputation by being the first to use the term “postmodern” to describe the bracingly new art that the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Johns and others were creating. “It was part of a lecture he was giving at Moma in 1968,” she said.
Such insights were the result of the nearly 7,000 prints that Steinberg bought and sold over his lifetime. Steingberg came to prints relatively late in life: he spent his early years fleeing from atrocities against Jews in Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany, eventually landing in New York City after the second world war at 25. Soon after he made his way writing and teaching about art, but he only seriously began collecting prints following a heart attack at the age of 40.
“Looking at copies of famous works helped him reveal the original artist’s choices and intentions,” said Borham. “He wrote a whole book about The Last Supper.
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