Founding October
After Leider left Artforum, Krauss and Michelson became less satisfied and eventually left the magazine to found October in 1976. This was one important symbol of the eclipse of serious non-academic critics like the New York intellectuals, and the rise of an academic intelligentsia in step with the post-GI Bill expansion of higher education. Just as much, the title indicated another trend: the uneasy yoking of the academic study of art with a French intellectual frame of reference and radical politics.
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