"Who was responsible for the crimes of the Nazis? Party leaders and members? Rank-and-file soldiers and bureaucrats? Ordinary Germans? This question looms over German disputes about the past like few others. It also looms over the art and architecture of postwar Germany in ways …
Clement Greenberg (1909-94), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism, has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the 20th century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. This title assesses Greenberg's writings, and features th…
"Before becoming a poet, Charles Baudelaire was an art critic; and he made his literary début with the Salon de 1845. Its failure to find a receptive audience led him to write the groundbreaking Salon de 1846 with its pivotal chapter on colour, in which Baudelaire challenged fun…
"Before becoming a poet, Charles Baudelaire was an art critic; and he made his literary début with the Salon de 1845. Its failure to find a receptive audience led him to write the groundbreaking Salon de 1846 with its pivotal chapter on colour, in which Baudelaire challenged fun…
Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art practices, the emphasis …
Compression vs. expression: containing and explaining the world's art ; [base…
by Onians, John, Clark Conference Compression Vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art, Williamstown, Mass, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Conference, Williamstown, Mass.)
fromClark studies in the visual arts