Why Art Criticism? A Reader
<p>How is art criticism to be understood within an expanding artistic field? A look at its history and its manifestations within globalized conditions shows the variety of the genre, of the criteria and of the styles of writing. This reader is an attempt to bring a diverse range of art-critical voices and perspectives into conversation with each other, with texts from the 18th century to the present. The editors Beate Söntgen and Julia Voss have invited colleagues from various geographical and intellectual backgrounds to present and discuss the art critics of their choice, choosing one example from their respective bodies of work to comment upon. How have these writers approached art criticism? Which styles do they employ? What makes them extraordinary? What can we learn from their writings today, and why is it important in its contemporary context?</p>
Editors: Beate Söntgen, Julia Voss
Contributors: Denis Diderot, Beate Söntgen, Johannes Grave, Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim, Heinrich von Kleist, Stephanie Marchal, Julius Meier-Graefe, Julia Voss, Berta Zuckerkandl, Monica Juneja, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Roger Fry, Valerija Kuzema, Sergei Tretyakov, Margarete Vöhringer, Alexander Rodchenko, Malte Rauch, Georges Bataille, Parul Dave Mukherji, Camilo Sarmiento Jaramillo, Luis Vidales, Isabelle Graw, Francis Ponge, Valerie Hortolani, Valerija Kuzema, Lothar Lang, Juli Carson, Oscar Masotta, Monique Bellan, Victor Hakim, Thorsten Schneider, Peter Gorsen, Astrid Mania, Mary Josephson, Beatrice von Bismarck, Lawrence Alloway, Florencia Malbrán, Marta Traba, Sarah Wilson, Roland Barthes, Michael F. Zimmermann, Allan Sekula, Sabeth Buchmann, Annemarie Sauzeau-Boetti, Azu Nwagbogu, Bob Bennett, Oona Lochner, Arlene Raven, Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes, Ješa Denegri, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Mark Sinker, Isabel Mehl, Lynne Tillman, Peter Geimer, Stefan Germer, Igor Zabel, Ghalya Saadawi, Walid Sadek, Angela Harutyunyan, Vardan Azatyan, Wolfgang Kemp, Julia Voss, Anita Hosseini, Helia Darabi, Ying Sze Pek, Hito Steyerl, Holger Kuhn, Melanie Gilligan, Yuriko Furuhata, Takashi Kashima, Julia Grosse, Patrick Mudekereza, Andreas Beyer, Peter Richter, Miriam Rasch, Reader Laureate, Rebecca John, Adwait Singh, Anna Kipke, Claire Bishop, Yvette Mutumba, Enos Nyamor, David Mielecke, Aruna d’Souza, Jennifer Higgie
Managing Editor: Lena Kiessler
Designer: Neil Holt
Translators: Angela Anderson, Katherine Vanovitch, Matthew James Scown
Part of: Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 9783775750929