What Happened to Art Criticism?

What Happened to Art Criticism?
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Publisher : Prickly Paradigm
Total Pages : 87
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ISBN-10 : 0972819630
ISBN-13 : 9780972819633
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Book Synopsis What Happened to Art Criticism? by : James Elkins

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.


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