After the Avant-Gardes

approvingly observed, the new seventh edition more closely reflects “changes in scholarship that began to place art more solidly ...

its peak. With distinguished scholars such as co-founder and copresident Bruce Cole of Indiana University (a specialist in Itali ...

gained a knowledge of “modern” and “contemporary” (i.e. postmod- ernist) art history, theory, and criticism through seminars in ...

[Second painting] One role of art is to voice the ineffable through allusion and abstraction. In painting/sculpture I wish to ev ...

tation. Dozens of trends, old and new, now compete for critical attention, with no widely followed movement claiming superiority ...

“Criticism is ultimately a manifestation of taste, which informs the fine distinctions critics make in their evaluations of arti ...

The future of art criticism is not promising. A telling indicator is the MFA program in Art Writing at the School of Visual Arts ...

pling water.” A San Francisco organization received a grant to support a survey exhibition by a single individual, which would i ...

Gioia (himself an accomplished poet and critic) should have known, other workshops, taught by historians and journalists—on writ ...

of whom are ill-equipped to teach traditional skills, if they teach them at all. When art history is taught, the great tradition ...

difficulty of defining ‘art.’” While it is true that the concept of art is dif- ficult for ordinary people to define, most do no ...

chronous, text-based learning environments. Characteristics and mecha- nisms discussed in this article include disembodied text- ...

[and] digital photography. Indeed, multi-media works of art are now encountered in contemporary museums and galleries more frequ ...

The first of these is that art is no mere adornment of human living... for which a substitute could easily be found, but an indi ...

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For thousands of years, artists have been described as people who make art. In the last century, however, the role of the artist ...

revealing any deeper appreciation for the subjects involved, this approach keeps the viewer at a distance by superimposing a sel ...

primitive art is too monolithic; it is based on a knowledge so prescribed as to be ignorance by another name. By reducing the hu ...

abstract art; its exuberant, sensual play of shape and color comes as close to uninhibited lyricism as the last century could mu ...

the dislocation of dreams. Coming as it did on the coat-tails of Freudian psychoanalysis, it even acquired the heft of scientifi ...