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art criticism

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art criticism

Description, interpretation, and evaluation of works of art, manifested in journal reviews, books, and patronage. Art criticism encompasses a wide variety of approaches, from critical commentary to more subjective emotional reactions inspired by viewing works of art. Art criticism as a distinct discipline developed parallel to Western aesthetic theory, beginning with antecedents in ancient Greece and fully taking form in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the 20th century perceptive critics became champions of new artistic movements. Beginning in the 20th and continuing into the 21st century, many critics used social and linguistic, rather than aesthetic, theoretical models. Prominent art critics include Roger Fry, Clive Bell, Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenblum, Lawrence Alloway, Rosalind Krauss, and Donald Kuspit. See also aesthetics.


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Roman Singer" offers insightful reading into the man and his work, making it a welcome and important addition to personal, professional, and academic library collections of Art History, Contemporary Art & Artists, and Art Criticism.
For his politically correct art criticism, Sukhanov is awarded a handsome apartment, to which he returns after a long day to forget his worries with a cup of cognac-laced tea and a plate of chocolate eclairs (while, it goes without saying, millions of humbler Soviets feast on stale bread ends and meatless borscht).
Farm readers may find Biel's sections of running commentary on the art criticism arguments of the Depression and Post-depression eras tough slogging.
 
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