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Beate Söntgen & Julia Voss: Why Art Criticism? A Reader

By Julia Voss
Series: Hatje Cantz Text
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Why Art Criticism? A Reader explores the evolving role and diverse forms of art criticism from the 18th century to today. Edited by Beate Söntgen and Julia Voss, this collection gathers voices from across the globe, offering insights into various critics' distinctive styles and approaches. It highlights how art criticism adapts within a globalised artistic landscape and why it remains vital in contemporary culture.
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How is art criticism to be understood within an expanding artistic field? A look at its history and its manifestations within globalised conditions shows the variety of the genre, of the criteria and of the styles of writing.

Why Art Criticism? A 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?

Texts by: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Denis Diderot, Takashi Kashima, Patrick Mudekereza, Annemarie Sauzeau-Boetti, Bertha Zuckerkandl, and many more.

Comments by: Juli Carson, Yuriko Furuhata, Isabelle Graw, Angela Harutyunyan, Monica Juneja, Wolfgang Kemp, Florencia Malbran, Yvette Mutumba, Azu Nwagbogu, Sarah Wilson, and many more.

Series: Hatje Cantz Text

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775750745

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 May 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 30 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Designed by Neil Holt
  • Edited by Beate Sontgen
  • Text by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 640g

Pages: 464

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Julia Voss Non-Fiction Series: Hatje Cantz Text

About the Author

BEATE SÖNTGEN (*1963) is professor of art history at Leuphana University Lüneburg. She studied art history, philosophy, and modern German literature in Marburg and Berlin. She is director of the DFG Research Training Group Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects and co-director of the program PriMus - Doctoral Studies in Museums.

JULIA VOSS (*1974) is an honorary professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg. She studied art history, modern German literature, and philosophy in Berlin and London. She is herself an art critic and journalist and was deputy head of the arts section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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