Download or read book Keys to Art written by John Canaday and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1959 Canaday began a 17-year career as a leading art critic for the New York Times with a bold proclamation in his September 6, 1959 column, he inflamed the art establishment by proclaiming that Abstract Expressionism, the dominant style of the period, allowed 'exceptional tolerance for incompetence and deception.'