1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

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…

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

The World Within the Word: Essays

William H. Gass