Synopses & Reviews
A survey of aesthetic and art critical stances accepted in the past 25 years, this book presents a brief summary of the historical background of nonformalist criticism as well as a broad spectrum of postmodernist critical sensibilities. |
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-166) and index.
Table of Contents
1. New Art Criticism, Howard Smagula.
2. Sociology of Art, Arnold Hauser.
3. Ways of Seeing, John Berger.
4. Hot Potatoes: Art and Politics in 1980, Lucy Lippard.
5. Towards a Feminist Theory of Art Criticism, Joanna Frueh.
6. Second Generation Art Criticism and Methodology, Gouma-Peterson and Mathews.
7. Psychoanalytic Criticism: Some Intimate Questions, Jane Gallop.
8. Artist Envy, Donald Kuspit.
9. Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard.
10. From Imitation to the Copy to Just Effect: On Reading Baudrillard, Kate Linker.
11. Nature and Culture, Peter Halley.
12. Art as Human Behavior: Toward an Ethological View of Art, Ellen Dissanayake.
13. The Marriage of Art and Money, Carter Ratcliff.
14. Suspicious Art, Unsuspecting Texts, David Carrier.
Bibliography.
Index.