Carter Ratcliff (born 1941 in Seattle, Washington)[1] is an American art critic, writer and poet.
[2] His books on art include John Singer Sargent (Abbeville Press, 1982); John Singer Sargent (Masterpiece Edition) (Abbeville Press, 2023); Robert Longo (Rizzoli, 1985); The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996); and Andy Warhol: Portraits (Phaidon Press, 2007).
Ratcliff was the guest editor of the September 2013 issue of The Brooklyn Rail, in which he spearheaded the discussion, "What is Art?".
With the exception of those happy to settle into a rut, artists try to bring their intentions to light—to clarify and strengthen and, it may be, reinvent them.
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