Max Kozloff (born 1933) is an American art historian, art critic of modern art and photographer. He has been art editor at ''

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'', and Executive Editor of ''

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''. His essay "American Painting During the Cold War" is of particular importance to the criticism on American Abstract Expressionism. Kozloff received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968 and an Infinity Award for Writing from the

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in 1990.

Early life and education

Kozloff was born in

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. He graduated from the

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in 1953. Between 1954 and 1956 he served in the

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, before returning to the University of Chicago for his M.A. degree in 1958. He joined

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in 1959 to pursue a Ph.D. degree, and was subsequently awarded a

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for 1962–1963.

Career

He started his career with a teaching position at New York University (NYU), and joined ''

'' as art critic in 1961, where he worked until 1968, and ''Art International''. In 1964, he left NYU without a degree and began working at ''

'' as an associate editor. In 1965 he received an

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Fellowship, and in 1966, received the

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Award for

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from the

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of America. He became ''Artforums contributing editor in 1967 and rose up to become its executive editor between 1975 and 1977. Meanwhile in 1976, he became an

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, and in the following years held numerous shows and became a photography critic. He joined the faculty of

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in 1989. He also remained a faculty at the

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Personal life

Kozloff married the artist Joyce Blumberg in 1967. In 1968, he signed the "

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" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War."Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, 1968 ''New York Post''

Publications

* ''Jasper Johns'', Abrams, 1972. * ''Cubism/Futurism'' (1973). * ''Photography & fascination: Essays'' (1979). * ''Leon Levinstein: the moment of exposure''. National Gallery of Canada, 1995. . * ''Cultivated Impasses: Essays on the Waning of the Avant-Garde, 1964–1975'' (2000). * ''New York: Capital of Photography'' (2002). . * ''The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900'' Phaidon, 2007. .

Awards

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Janu ...

: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York City *1990: Infinity Award for Writing from the

, New York City

References

External links

Entry on Kozloff at Dictionary of Art Historians
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