Andrew Porter & David Carrier

Andrew Porter, Music of Three Seasons: 1974 - 1977. Farrar Struss Giroux, New York (1978).
Writing of Schoenberg's string quartets and the Juillard String Quartet,

Twenty years ago, the Juilliard taught me to love these compositions; their performances were revelatory in the way that Hans Rosbaud's of Schoenberg's orchestral music were. Once, this music had seemed forbidding, baffling, suddenly there shined a light, and there fell from my ears as there had been scales.
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David Carrier, The Aesthete In The City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s, Penn State Press (1994), writes,

Theory promised to elevate criticism out of journalism into the academic world. Who would not be tempted by that promise? Certainly I was. Writing about contemporary art, it seemed, might acquire some of the intellectual substance of the texts of Erwin Panofsky, Aby Warburg, and Heinrich Wölfflin, who made art history into a university subject. My sense, looking back, is that the promise was not fulfilled. The theorizing of the 1980s, wildly imaginative and extremely inventive - a grandly bold intellectual adventure - was too abstract.
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