THE JEWISH ART OF LOOKING AT VISUAL ARTS

Professor Leo Steinberg, who died on March 13 aged 90, was a maverick but influential art historian who covered the field from the Renaissance to Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg; in The Painted Word (1975), Tom Wolfe numbered him (with Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg) among the "kings of Cultureburg" – people who dominated the field of art criticism.

-The Telegraph
April 11 2011