What happened to art criticism?
By: James Elkins.
Series: Paradigm ;; 13; Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.) ;; 13.
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Art criticism -- History -- 20th century
Description: "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."--Jacket.