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What Happened to Art Criticism?
James Elkins
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Paperback. In this pamphlet, James Elkins surveys the last fifty years of art criticism, proposing some interesting explanations for the changes in writing about art, from passionate to academic. Series: Prickly Paradigm. Num Pages: 100 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 117 x 6. Weight in Grams: 82.
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. How is it that even as criticism drifts away from academia, it becomes more academic? 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 this pamphlet, James Elkins surveys the last fifty years of art criticism, proposing some interesting explanations for these startling changes.
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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. How is it that even as criticism drifts away from academia, it becomes more academic? 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 this pamphlet, James Elkins surveys the last fifty years of art criticism, proposing some interesting explanations for these startling changes.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
Series
Prickly Paradigm
Number of Pages
87
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780972819633
SKU
V9780972819633
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