1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner

Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries, Selected Papers
Meyer Schapiro
Traces the evolution from cultured artists who added literary and historical elements to their paintings to the painters who relied on sensibility alone, with a discussion of the social meaning of abstract art…
1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist

And I Worked at the Writer’s Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978
Malcolm Cowley

Orientalism
Edward W. Said

The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
Eudora Welty
