What Happened To Art Criticism

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Prickly Paradigm
ISBN 13 : 9780972819633
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Happened to Art Criticism? written by James Elkins and published by Prickly Paradigm. This book was released on 2003 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art criticism was once passionate, polemical and judgmental: now critics are more often interested in ambiguity, neutrality, and nuanced description. And while art criticism is ubiquitous in newspapers, magazines, and exhibition brochures, it is also virtually absent from academic writing. Here, James Elkins surveys the last fifty years of art criticism, proposing some interesting explanations for these startling changes.

Author : Charlotte Frost
Publisher : Gylphi Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780240414
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Criticism Online written by Charlotte Frost and published by Gylphi Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mainstream press often celebrates the ‘tweeting’, ‘facebooking’ and ‘gramming’ of art commentary. Yet online forms of art criticism have a much longer and more varied history than we think. Far preceding the art discussions happening on the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Before art discussions took place on social media, there were networked art projects and art critical Bulletin Board Systems, email discussion lists and blogs. Art Criticism Online: A History provides the first in-depth history of art criticism following the Internet. The book considers the core stages of development and considers where critical practice is heading in the future. Charlotte Frost's Art Criticism Online provides a much needed account and indispensable survey of the ways in which Western art criticism has been profoundly affected and changed by the online environment. Building on the history of networked and participatory criticism predating the Internet, Frost traces three different phases of online art criticism unfolding in early discussion groups, on listservs, and within today's blogosphere and social media platforms. The book expertly captures nuanced transformations in art criticism's content, form and style, analyzing how approaches have shifted in response to the evolution of the art world terrain. Art Criticism Online successfully manages to provide readers with a map of the dynamic expressions of today's critical culture. --Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art, Whitney Museum, Director/Chief Curator, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons/The New School So what happened to art criticism, anyway? This lively history is a vital resource for anyone interested in this question. Drawing on a half-century of examples, the book discusses the new, experimental writing practices the internet has made possible, and its destructive effects, making a persuasive case that art criticism hasn't gone away it's just changed radically. --Michael Connor, Artistic Director, Rhizome

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135867593
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of Art Criticism written by James Elkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history and poses the question of whether criticism may become a university subject. Contributors include Dave Hickey, James Panero, Stephen Melville, Lynne Cook, Michael Newman, Whitney Davis, Irit Rogoff, Guy Brett and Boris Groys.

Author : Jeff Khonsary
Publisher : Fillip Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780973813364
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism written by Jeff Khonsary and published by Fillip Editions. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and discussions examines the role of judgment in art writing within the context of a renewed interest in the efficacy and function of contemporary art criticism.

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415939430
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of Art written by James Elkins and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intimate history, James Elkins demonstrates that there is - and can never be - only one story of art. He opens up the questions that traditional art history usually avoids.

Author : Maggie Nelson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393343146
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Cruelty written by Maggie Nelson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069505
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Art Cannot Be Taught written by James Elkins and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He also addresses the phenomenon of art critiques as a microcosm for teaching art as a whole and dissects real-life critiques, highlighting presuppositions and dynamics that make them confusing and suggesting ways to make them more helpful. Elkins's no-nonsense approach clears away the assumptions about art instruction that are not borne out by classroom practice. For example, he notes that despite much talk about instilling visual acuity and teaching technique, in practice neither teachers nor students behave as if those were their principal goals. He addresses the absurdity of pretending that sexual issues are absent from life-drawing classes and questions the practice of holding up great masters and masterpieces as models for students capable of producing only mediocre art. He also discusses types of art--including art that takes time to complete and art that isn't serious--that cannot be learned in studio art classes.

Author : Gilda Williams
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500772177
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Write About Contemporary Art written by Gilda Williams and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential handbook for students and professionals on writing eloquently, accurately, and originally about contemporary art How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first navigates readers through the key elements of style and content, from the aims and structure of a piece to its tone and language. Brimming with practical tips that range across the complete spectrum of art-writing, the second part of the book is organized around its specific forms, including academic essays; press releases and news articles; texts for auction and exhibition catalogues, gallery guides and wall labels; op-ed journalism and exhibition reviews; and writing for websites and blogs. In counseling the reader against common pitfalls—such as jargon and poor structure—Gilda Williams points instead to the power of close looking and research, showing how to deploy language effectively; how to develop new ideas; and how to construct compelling texts. More than 30 illustrations throughout support closely analysed case studies of the best writing, in Source Texts by 64 authors, including Claire Bishop, Thomas Crow, T.J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor, Dave Hickey, John Kelsey, Chris Kraus, Rosalind Krauss, Stuart Morgan, Hito Steyerl, and Adam Szymczyk. Supplemented by a general bibliography, advice on the use and misuse of grammar, and tips on how to construct your own contemporary art library, How to Write About Contemporary Art is the essential handbook for all those interested in communicating about the art of today.

Author : Raphael Rubinstein
Publisher : Hard Press Editions Dist A/C
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Mess written by Raphael Rubinstein and published by Hard Press Editions Dist A/C. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will give readers a full picture of current debate about the nature of art criticism, a debate that has become as heated and questioning as the discourse on contemporary art in general.

Author : Jennifer Doyle
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082235313X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hold It Against Me written by Jennifer Doyle and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the relationship between emotional intensity and difficulty in works of avant-garde art, Jennifer Doyle seeks to develop a critical language for understanding affectively charged contemporary art.