What Happened to Art Criticism?
What Happened to Art Criticism? Art criticism was once passionate, polemical, and judgmental; now critics are more often interested in ambiguity, neutrality, and nuanced description. How is it that…
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What Happened to Art Criticism?
Art criticism was once passionate, polemical, and judgmental; now critics are more often interested in ambiguity, neutrality, and nuanced description. How is it that even as criticism drifts away from academia, it becomes more academic? And while art criticism is ubiquitous in newspapers, magazines, and exhibition brochures, it is also virtually absent from academic writing.
In this pamphlet, James Elkins surveys the last fifty years of art criticism, proposing some interesting explanations for these startling changes. How is it that sifting through a countless array of colorful periodicals and catalogs makes criticism seem to slip even further from our grasp? "In What Happened to Art Criticism?, art historian James Elkins sounds the alarm about the perilous state of that craft, which he believes is 'In worldwide crisis . . .
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