Paul Mattick
Subtly argued and gracefully erudite, Paul Mattick's Art In Its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics is neither a work of art criticism nor of aesthetics, but is rather an intellectual and social history of concepts central to the emergence of modern art and aesthetics. Art In Its Time is at its most potent and even controversial when Mattick directs his razor-sharp critical attention on the aesthetic theories and fantasies of modernist and post-modernist art...[His] arguments are nuanced in detail, and his observations are invariably illuminating.. -Daniel Baird, THE BROOKLYN RAIL