Patricia Bickers: The Ends of Art Criticism
07/26/21 • 84 min
The Ends of Art Criticism
Patricia Bickers
Published by Lund Humphries, 2021
ISBN 9781848224261
Crisis? What Crisis? At a time where there are repeated claims of the impending demise of art criticism, The Ends of Art Criticism dispel these myths by arguing that the lack of a single dominant voice in criticism is not, as some believe, a weakness, but a strength, allowing previously marginalised voices and new global and political perspectives to come to the fore.
Patricia Bickers speaks with Pierre d’Alancaisez about her time as the editor of Art Monthly, the changing role of art criticism, the politics of speaking and writing about art, the art school, the relationship between artists and critics, the academicisation of critical discourse, the relationship between art history and criticism, and.. the art of the interview.
Some of the works mentioned in the conversation:
- The Freeze exhibitions
- That Jerry Saltz tweet
- Richard Serra, Weight and Measure
- Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Black Trans Archive
- Pilvi Takala, The Trainee
- Cameron Rowland, 3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73
- The Art Monthly Talking Art anthology of artist interviews: Volume 1, Volume 2
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The Ends of Art Criticism
Patricia Bickers
Published by Lund Humphries, 2021
ISBN 9781848224261
Crisis? What Crisis? At a time where there are repeated claims of the impending demise of art criticism, The Ends of Art Criticism dispel these myths by arguing that the lack of a single dominant voice in criticism is not, as some believe, a weakness, but a strength, allowing previously marginalised voices and new global and political perspectives to come to the fore.
Patricia Bickers speaks with Pierre d’Alancaisez about her time as the editor of Art Monthly, the changing role of art criticism, the politics of speaking and writing about art, the art school, the relationship between artists and critics, the academicisation of critical discourse, the relationship between art history and criticism, and.. the art of the interview.
Some of the works mentioned in the conversation:
- The Freeze exhibitions
- That Jerry Saltz tweet
- Richard Serra, Weight and Measure
- Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Black Trans Archive
- Pilvi Takala, The Trainee
- Cameron Rowland, 3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73
- The Art Monthly Talking Art anthology of artist interviews: Volume 1, Volume 2
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You can sign up for my newsletter at https://petitpoi.net/newsletter/
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Frans-Willem Korsten: Art as an Interface of Law and Justice
Art as an Interface of Law and Justice
Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption
Frans-Willem Korsten
Published by Hart, 2021
ISBN 9781509944347
Art as an Interface of Law and Justice looks at the way in which the ‘call for justice’ is portrayed through art and presents a wide range of texts from film to theatre to essays and novels to interrogate the law. Such calls may have their positive connotations, but throughout history most have caused annoyance. Art is very well suited to deal with such annoyance, or to provoke it.
Frans-Willem Korsten speaks with Pierre d’Alancaisez about art that attempts to support – or disturb – law in pursuit of justice. He discusses Milo Rau’s The Congo Tribunal, Valeria Luiselli’s novel Lost Children Archive, the practice of Forensic Architecture, and Nicolas Winding Refn’s film Only God Forgives. Through art’s interface, impasses are addressed, new laws are made imaginable, the span of systems of laws is explored, and the differences in what people consider to be just are brought to light.
Frans-Willem Korsten holds the chair in “Literature and Society” at the Erasmus School of Philosophy and works at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society in the Netherlands.
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Hannah Wohl: Bound by Creativity
Bound by Creativity
How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged
Hannah Wohl
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2021
ISBN 9780226784694
What is creativity? While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is profoundly influenced by social interactions even when artists work alone.
Hannah Wohl speaks with Pierre d’Alancaisez about Bound by Creativity, her ethnographic study of the New York contemporary art scene that reveals how artists develop conceptions of their distinctive creative visions through experimentation and social interactions and how aesthetic judgment evolves between artist studios, galleries, art fairs, and collectors’ houses.
We mention Paula Cooper Gallery and the work of artists Lucky DeBellevue and Gina Beavers. The Armory Show takes place in NY in early September 2021.
Hannah Wohl is an assistant professor in sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara.
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