Since the early Nineteen Nineties, an ever increasing number of artworks have been created on the basis of pre-existing works. More and more artists interpret, reproduce, re-exhibit, or use works made by others or available cultural products. This art of postproduction seems to …
Taste and preference -- Aesthetic qualities -- Hume on the standard of taste -- Identifying critics -- When critics disagree -- Comparing and sharing taste -- Some applications. "Everyone's a critic, the saying goes. This seems truer than ever in the age of social media, with c…
"What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historia…
Cosmic shift: Russian contemporary art writing
In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country's most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to examine the region's various movements of contemporary art,…
