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“... Ghost, hers an oracular hooga-booga. The objections that Howe, Rahv, John Simon, the art critic Hilton Kramer and other keepers of the scrolls lodged against her were as much about the 1960s as they were about her, for no one in the Family (as Norman Podhoretz, a former Partisan Review-er, dubbed them) personified the 1960s more than Sontag, who would ...”

“... supporters. But there were also plenty of opponents. In 1963, at a symposium organised by MoMA, Hilton Kramer insisted that Pop Art ‘derives its small, feeble victories from the juxtaposition of two clichés: a cliché of form superimposed on a cliché of image’. The catalogue for an exhibition of Pop Art in Washington DC attacked the ...”