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Style wars.

Publication: Lambda Book Report
Publication Date: 01-OCT-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Style wars.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me

By Craig Seligman

Counterpoint

ISBN 1-58243-311-9

PB, $23.00, 192 pp.

In Sontag & Kael, Craig Seligman frames Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael as two of the most influential American art commentators in the thirty-year span beginning with the Sixties. His gaze is intensely personal and nostalgic in the comparison and contrast of their stylistic idiolects, the breadth and scope of their writing, and the influence they wielded on their times. The author is perhaps guilty of a truism in describing his subjects' critical styles as part and parcel of their substance, arguing that style conveys the legitimacy of personality, from which the development of individual taste is made possible. This does not prevent...

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