Confronting The Death Of Art Criticism
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Confronting The Death Of Art Criticism
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Author : Laurie Rojas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Confronting The Death Of Art Criticism written by Laurie Rojas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art criticism categories.
In 2001, art critic and historian Benjamin Buchloh declared the 'death of art criticism' during the October journal's roundtable, "The Present Conditions of Art Criticism." The following decade witnessed a plethora of articles, conferences, and books devoted to the crisis of criticism--all efforts thus far seem to have failed, the crisis has not been abated. Art criticism is decaying and our historical moment is not only "post-modern" but also "post-critical." At the same time, art writing has become such a broad spectrum of "literature" that neither author nor reader take it seriously--the writing is often ironic, filled with joyful and mediocre immediacy, and not to mention, a proud ahistoricism. We are also told, however, that this is a great moment for culture: writings on film, music, and art are to be found everywhere you turn or click. The Internet has allowed the democratization of cultural production: anyone can upload a film to YouTube or a track to MySpace--everyone has a voice, everyone has a blog, and everyone is a critic. Under quickly changing conditions, then, what are the present tasks of aspiring art critics? This undertaking is multilayered but it must begin with an understanding the crisis of criticism in its contemporary and historical expressions. In the first two sections, the thesis surveys the symptoms of the illness: how art criticism has been unable to grasp the swift changes in the art world and how the curator, the dealer and the collector have replaced the critic as the main mediators between art and its public. The third section outlines how contemporary art criticism, largely anti-Greenbergian and anti-modern, suffers from "the flight from judgment." In the fourth section, I explain how Art criticism was displaced with the emergence of art practices in the 1960s that thought to incorporate criticism into the work itself. All are important, and often contradictory considerations when seeking to understand the demise of art criticism, but, all are not equally important for the task of resurrecting and redeeming criticism. The final part will dedicate itself to the future of criticism in light of its history. It will investigate and introduce possible paths for the reconstitution of art criticism, suggesting possibilities exist in the overlooked history of earlier art criticism.
The Almost Total Death Of Art Criticism
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Author : Michael Denholm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-04-30
The Almost Total Death Of Art Criticism written by Michael Denholm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Art and state categories.
"This book, and its companion volume, 'Trusting in Providence', tell the story of writing critical histories of art and literature in a state and country where there is little interest in the life of the mind and where arts institutions, funding agencies and other bodies... think that there is little value in critical thought or in knowing anything about Australia's cultural past." -- Back cover.
Death Of An Art Critic Tod Einer Kritikerin
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Author : Annika Bender
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2017-09-08
Death Of An Art Critic Tod Einer Kritikerin written by Annika Bender and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Art categories.
“The idea behind Donnerstag was to insist on the difference between good art and bad art. I am aware of how anachronistic that sounds and how quickly it evokes the image of an old critic-pontiff wagging his authoritarian pointer finger. But even that image is founded in a misunderstanding: the caricaturesque exaggeration of the critic's voice as dictatorial. But it's really nothing more than that very voice. And it pronounces a judgment that is not juridical, but ideally worth nothing more than the argument at its core. It's far more authoritarian and antidemocratic to deny a public voice the act of judgment and concede to a postheroically styled art writer nothing more than the task of pointing at something. […] Whoever just leaves it at that has also parted ways with any hope of open rivalry between arguments.” —Annika Bender This book is an adaptation of Annika Bender's lecture “Jump! You Fuckers!” which was presented at Kunsthalle Bern in the context of a series on overproduction and ambivalence in contemporary art. Annika Bender was one of the pseudonyms of artists Dominic Osterried and Steffen Zillig, who wrote the blog Donnerstag (now discontinued) under her name. To make the criticism she proposed possible, and make public its conditions and inherent contradictions—as well as articulate the reasons for her disappearance—it proved necessary to confer Bender to the archive. Schriftenreihe by Kunsthalle Bern, ed. Valérie Knoll and Hannes Loichinger
The State Of Art Criticism
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Author : James Elkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-11-13
The State Of Art Criticism written by James Elkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-13 with Art categories.
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.
The Death Of The Artist
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Author : William Deresiewicz
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2020-07-28
The Death Of The Artist written by William Deresiewicz and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with Art categories.
A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work—the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our souls and societies—from an award-winning essayist and critic There are two stories you hear about earning a living as an artist in the digital age. One comes from Silicon Valley. There's never been a better time to be an artist, it goes. If you've got a laptop, you've got a recording studio. If you've got an iPhone, you've got a movie camera. And if production is cheap, distribution is free: it's called the Internet. Everyone's an artist; just tap your creativity and put your stuff out there. The other comes from artists themselves. Sure, it goes, you can put your stuff out there, but who's going to pay you for it? Everyone is not an artist. Making art takes years of dedication, and that requires a means of support. If things don't change, a lot of art will cease to be sustainable. So which account is true? Since people are still making a living as artists today, how are they managing to do it? William Deresiewicz, a leading critic of the arts and of contemporary culture, set out to answer those questions. Based on interviews with artists of all kinds, The Death of the Artist argues that we are in the midst of an epochal transformation. If artists were artisans in the Renaissance, bohemians in the nineteenth century, and professionals in the twentieth, a new paradigm is emerging in the digital age, one that is changing our fundamental ideas about the nature of art and the role of the artist in society.
Confronting Images
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Author : Georges Didi-Huberman
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2005
Confronting Images written by Georges Didi-Huberman and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Philosophy categories.
According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which intelligible forms lose clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he contends, fail to engage this underside, and he suggests that art historians look to Freud's concept of the "dreamwork", a mobile process that often involves substitution and contradiction.
Facing Loss And Death
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Author : Peter Hühn
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-08-22
Facing Loss And Death written by Peter Hühn and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Lyric poetry as a temporal art-form makes pervasive use of narrative elements in organizing the progressive course of the poetic text. This observation justifies the application of the advanced methodology of narratology to the systematic analysis of lyric poems. After a concise presentation of this transgeneric approach to poetry, the study sets out to demonstrate its practical fruitfulness in detailed analyses of a large number of English (and some American) poems from the early modern period to the present. The narratological approach proves particularly suited to focus on the hitherto widely neglected dimension of sequentiality, the dynamic progression of the poetic utterance and its eventful turns, which largely constitute the raison d'être of the poem. To facilitate comparisons, the examples chosen share one special thematic complex, the traumatic experience of severe loss: the death of a beloved person, the imminence of one’s own death, the death of a revered fellow-poet and the loss of a fundamental stabilizing order. The function of the poems can be described as facing the traumatic experience in the poetic medium and employing various coping strategies. The poems thus possess a therapeutic impetus.
Art Criticism And Its Institutions In Nineteenth Century France
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Author : Michael R. Orwicz
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1994
Art Criticism And Its Institutions In Nineteenth Century France written by Michael R. Orwicz and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Art criticism categories.
This book explores a range of social, institutional and discursive conditions in and through which criticism emerged and functioned in 19th-century France, and goes on to develop broader theoretical questions drawn from historical case studies.
Wake Of Art
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Author : Arthur C. Danto
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Wake Of Art written by Arthur C. Danto and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Art categories.
Since the mid-1980s, Arthur C. Danto has been increasingly concerned with the implications of the demise of modernism. Out of the wake of modernist art, Danto discerns the emergence of a radically pluralistic art world. His essays illuminate this novel art world as well as the fate of criticism within it. As a result, Danto has crafted the most compelling philosophy of art criticism since Clement Greenberg. Gregg Horowitz and Tom Huhn analyze the constellation of philosophical and critical elements in Danto's new- Hegelian art theory. In a provocative encounter, they employ themes from Kantian aesthetics to elucidate the continuing persistence of taste in shaping even this most sophisticated philosophy of art.
Lateness And Longing
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Author : George Baker
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-05-23
Lateness And Longing written by George Baker and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-23 with Photography categories.
How a generation of women artists is transforming photography with analogue techniques. Beginning in the 1990s, a series of major artists imagined the expansion of photography, intensifying its ideas and effects while abandoning many of its former medium constraints. Simultaneous with this development in contemporary art, however, photography was moving toward total digitalization. Lateness and Longing presents the first account of a generation of artists—focused on the work of Zoe Leonard, Tacita Dean, Sharon Lockhart, and Moyra Davey—who have collectively transformed the practice of photography, using analogue technologies in a dissident way and radicalizing signifiers of older models of feminist art. All these artists have resisted the transition to the digital in their work. Instead—in what amounts to a series of feminist polemics—they return to earlier, incomplete, or unrealized moments in photography’s history, gravitating toward the analogue basis of photographic mediums. Their work announces that photography has become—not obsolete—but “late,” opened up by the potentially critical forces of anachronism. Through a strategy of return—of refusing to let go—the work of these artists proposes an afterlife and survival of the photographic in contemporary art, a formal lateness wherein photography finds its way forward through resistance to the contemporary itself.