The book is rubbish on a stick by two supercilious Rand-haters. Don’t buy it unless you want to read what the anti-Randbots are saying and thinking.

The criticisms they discuss are very unfair or unsubstantiated or material they don’t grasp. These two Rand-haters are far beneath contempt, intellectual vagabonds who smirk as their false superior abilities dare criticize what they don’t understand.

M&K spend more time criticizing or smearing Rand than recognizing her greatness. When mentioning the prospect of the extinction of non-art and the rebirth of art, they do not mention the role of Objectivism in that process but hope that their book “will play some small role in hastening that renaissance”. It sure will. It will help destroy it.

Even more blatant is their injustice towards Leonard Peikoff, whose great accomplishments all «independent Objectivist scholars» invariably belittle. Not only is Peikoff’s chapter on Art in «Objectivism : The Philosophy of Ayn Rand» more or less disregarded, but his 1993 lecture on «Modernism and Madness» (published in «The Intellectual Activist», November 1994) is dismissed to a footnote (n. 6 p391) which is not even listed in the index. Such an oversight is all the more troubling as much of “What Art Is” is only a lengthy paraphrase Peikoff’s argument in this lecture..

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