Title & Author:

Why Art Criticism? : A Reader / Beate Söntgen and Julia Voss, eds.

Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2022]

Description:

1 online resource (710 pages)

Notes:
Intro -- Inhalt -- Foreword -- Why Art Criticism? An Introduction -- Passion, Performance, and Soberness: Denis Diderot -- Beate Söntgen -- Essays on Painting -- Denis Diderot -- In Conversation: Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim -- Johannes Grave -- In Front of a Friedrich Seascape with Capuchin Monk -- Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim -- Feelings Before Friedrich's Seascape -- Heinrich von Kleist -- Emotional Collectivities: Julius Meier-Graefe -- Stephanie Marchal -- Fellows in Reality -- Julius Meier-Graefe -- The Leak: Berta Zuckerkandl -- Julia Voss -- The Klimt Affair -- Berta Zuckerkandl
Klimt's letter to the Education Ministry -- Crafts and the Spiritual: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy -- Monica Juneja -- The Indian Craftsman -- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy -- Practical Formalist: Roger Fry -- Beate Söntgen -- The Futurists -- Roger Fry -- The Case of the Late Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, O. M. -- Roger Fry -- Independent Gallery: Vanessa Bell and Othon Fries -- Roger Fry -- Agitation: Sergei Tretyakov -- Valerija Kuzema -- The Work of Viktor Palmov -- Sergei Tretyakov -- Photo-Notes -- Sergei Tretyakov -- Snapshot: Alexander Rodchenko -- Margarete Vöhringer
Against the Synthetic Portrait, For the Snapshot -- Alexander Rodchenko -- Decomposition: Georges Bataille -- Malte Rauch -- Critiques -- Georges Bataille -- Decolonizing Art History: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy -- Parul Dave Mukherji -- Why Exhibit Works of Art? -- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy -- Advocating the Collective: Luis Vidales -- Camilo Sarmiento Jaramillo -- The Aesthetic of Our Time -- Luis Vidales -- Colombian Painting -- Luis Vidales -- Materialism and Proximity: Francis Ponge -- Isabelle Graw -- Note on the Hostages, Paintings by Fautrier -- Francis Ponge
Censorship and the Authorial "I": Lothar Lang -- Valerie Hortolani and Valerija Kuzema -- Annotations on Painting in Leipzig, with an Update on Tübke -- Lothar Lang -- Hermann Glöckner -- Lothar Lang -- The Hans Grundig Exhibition, 1973 -- Lothar Lang -- Harald Metzkes at the Nationalgalerie, 1978 -- Lothar Lang -- Fragments on Art Criticism -- Lothar Lang -- Trespasser of Gatekeeping: Oscar Masotta -- Juli Carson -- I Committed a Happening -- Oscar Masotta -- Embedded Chronicler: Victor Hakim -- Monique Bellan
The Artistic and Literary Life: Reviews from La Revue du Liban et de l'Orient Arabe -- Victor Hakim -- Undisciplined: Peter Gorsen -- Thorsten Schneider -- Prolegomena to a Hedonistic Enlightenment -- Peter Gorsen -- In Drag: Mary Josephson -- Astrid Mania -- Warhol: The Medium as Cultural Artifact -- Mary Josephson -- Self-Reflective Connectivity: Lawrence Alloway -- Beatrice von Bismarck -- Network: The Art World Described as a System -- Lawrence Alloway -- Vulnerability and Resistance: Marta Traba -- Florencia Malbrán
Two Decades of Vulnerability in Latin American / Visual Arts 1950/1970 -- Marta Traba

Summary:

"How is art criticism to be understood within an expanding artistic field? A look at its history and its manifestations within globalized conditions shows the variety of the genre, of the criteria and of the styles of writing. This reader is an attempt to bring a diverse range of art-critical voices and perspectives into conversation with each other, with texts from the 18th century to the present. The editors Beate Söntgen and Julia Voss have invited colleagues from various geographical and intellectual backgrounds to present and discuss the art critics of their choice, choosing one example from their respective bodies of work to comment upon. How have these writers approached art criticism? Which styles do they employ? What makes them extraordinary? What can we learn from their writings today, and why is it important in its contemporary context?"-- provided by distributor.

Resources:
EBSCOhost

ISBN:

9783775750936 (electronic book)
3775750932 (electronic book)
9783775750929 (electronic book)
3775750924 (electronic book)
9783775750745

Subject:

Art criticism.
Critique d'art.
art criticism.

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Art criticism
Critiques d'art.

Added entries:

Söntgen, Beate, editor.
Voss, Julia, editor.
Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish.
Diderot, Denis.
Kashima, Takashi.
Mudekereza, Patrick.
Zuckerkandl, Bertha.
Boetti, Annemarie Sauzeau.
Carson, Juli.