How do we do justice to art when we treat it not as a discrete European or other regional tradition, but as a worldwide phenomenon with a long history? These essays explore the conflict between the need to compress and the desire to express the worlds art. All those who work wit…
"This book collects fourteen essays by the woefully understudied Carl Einstein, translated here from the German. Einstein was a major critic in the early twentieth century. He was a large presence in Paris when it was the crucible of the modernist avant-garde. He was one of the …
Feminist Art Criticism: an anthology
by RAVEN, ARLENE, Langer, Cassandra L., Frueh, Joanna
15 essays fra årene 1973-1983, hovedparten fra tidsskriftet "October."
"Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his earliest publications, yet this aspect of his thought is largely neglected within the disciplines of art history and aesthetic theory. In Foucault on Painting, Catherine M. Soussloff argues …
This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms (essays on Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Ca…
Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid between Indigenous and Western art ... The essays, by fourteen experts in the field, discuss Indigenous comtemporary art practices and their artworld reception in different locales in Australia…