Spaces for Criticism: Shifts in Contemporary Art Discourses (Antennae) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9078088753 ISBN 13: 9789078088752

Publisher: Valiz, 2015

Synopsis

Is art criticism losing ground to the Internet and its rapidly proliferating art blogs? Do people still consider the art critics employed by newspapers and magazines the most important arbitrators of what is worth seeing and reading? Much recent discussion about the changing landscape of art writing, often framed as a crisis in criticism, has revolved around the question, "what is art criticism?" Spaces for Criticism, edited by Pascal Gielen, asks instead, "where is art criticism?" The contributors to this volume explore new ways and new spaces where art critics might interact with works of art, artists, scholars and a varied, increasingly informed public. The authors argue that criticism has shifted to different places and different stages, experiencing both a displacement onto new media and into new geographic regions and new institutional structures.

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Is art criticism losing ground, because of the Internet and art blogs? Do people consider the authorative art critics (of newspapers, magazines) as their most important source to assess and filter what they want to see, read, etc.? Most recent discussions have revolved around the question 'what is art criticism?'; this book wants to explore the question: 'where is art criticism?'. It wants to explore new ways and new spaces where art critics might interact with publics, works of art, artists and scholars. This book suggests criticism has shifted to different places and different
stages: it concerns a 'displacement', not only with regard to media (from journalism to blogs, catalogues, etc.), but also a displacement in the geographical and institutional sense.

Edition details

• Publisher: Valiz
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9078088753
• ISBN 13: 9789078088752
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Milevska Suzana, Gielen Pascal, Lijster Thijs, Sonderegger Ruth