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Reflections on taste.(art criticism)(Column)
Not long ago, I enjoyed a spirited conversation with a highly perceptive and well-informed observer of our contemporary cultural landscape--a conversation mostly concerned with the quality of art criticism as practiced today in the principal forums of informed opinion: university lecture halls and scholarly journals. My friend and I readily agreed that the cultural terrain we surveyed was disappointing, to say the least: a barren and monochrome landscape, We thus echoed a familiar lament, repeated often over the years, he, in far more articulate terms than I.
As I later reconsidered some of the points we discussed, it occurred to me that a contributing factor to ...
- Formalist art criticism and the politics of meaning.
- Magazine article from: Social Justice Tekiner, Deniz June 22, 2006 700+ words
...the art world. By its judgments of taste, it certified the worthiness of art...implications of art. Formalism dominated art criticism in the United States during the postwar...without direct coercion. Formalist art criticism is also subject to this charge. By...
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- Magazine article from: Quadrant LOOBY, KEITH March 1, 1999 700+ words
...advance guard has won has put taste beyond human control. Most...developing a contradiction to art criticism. I first noticed this style...ambitions through their personal tastes, rather than attempting to...convenient power base of "taste". A writer analysing, let...
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- Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review Jacob, Max Kulik, William March 1, 1994 700+ words
...ropes from the sidewalk to the chimney. The whole thing very picturesque, which must certainly have given our painter his taste for the picturesque. Max Jacob (1876-1944), painter and poet, is considered, with Apollinaire, a co-founder of the...
- Look to learn; Art criticism.(four books about art)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 26, 2003 700+ words
...are no longer an insurgent. What does Mr Cork think of these developments and what they say about changes in British public taste? Even from the last two volumes in this series, it is hard to tell. What critical standards should a champion of new art...
- Last Chance for Eden: Selected Art Criticism, 1979-1995.
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Plagens, Peter January 1, 1996 700+ words
...now-defunct Hearst paper the Herald Examiner, which had in turn obtained him in 1980 - preaccessorized with intelligence, taste, and curatorial experience - from the La Jolla Museum of Art. The Herald had known it couldn't compete directly with the...
- Critical reflections. (the role and responsibilities of art criticism)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Schefer, Jean Louis March 1, 1997 700+ words
...whatever "French theory" it could unearth. Even during that time of theoretical excess, Schefer was something of an acquired taste, an extremist among the generation of intellectuals to which he refers in this essay. His first book, Scenographie d'un...
- Cultural anxiety in Anna Jameson's art criticism.(The Nineteen Century)
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Lew, Laurie Kane September 22, 1996 700+ words
...acquisition of social skills (and cultural capital) by women, Jameson's travels between the world of high culture and the popular taste of an emergent middle class reflect an understanding of how cultural preferences are socially constituted (and gendered) and...
- Art Criticism in Crisis? James Elkins Studies the Evidence.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) September 13, 2004 700+ words
...sit down and review What Happened to Art Criticism?, a slim book by James Elkins that...Not because Mr. Elkins considers art criticism "very nearly dead" as a literary...and deeply. Though What Happened to Art Criticism? encompasses only the last 50 years...
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