Conservative cultural scion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/arts/design/hilton-kramer-critic-who-championed-modernism-dies-at-84.html?_r=1&ref=books
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― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:13 (fourteen years ago)
I read something by him a few years ago, but I'm not sure what--looking at a list of his books, it may have been Twilight of the Intellectuals.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:43 (fourteen years ago)
Hmmm, always meant to read him, but ...
He was a passionate defender of high art against the claims of popular culture and saw himself not simply as a critic offering informed opinion on this or that artist but also as a warrior upholding the values that made civilized life worthwhile.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:24 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah, any pressure for me to read him is kind of trumped by his status as postwar art criticism's biggest troll?
― EDB, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:41 (fourteen years ago)