Why Art Criticism? A Reader

• Compendium of art criticism • Plurality of voices and styles of writing • With short comments on each art critique

Inhalt Foreword Why Art Criticism? An Introduction Passion, Performance, and Soberness: Denis Diderot - Beate Söntgen In Conversation: Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim - Johannes Grave Emotional Collectivities: Julius Meier-Graefe - Stephanie Marchal The Leak: Berta Zuckerkandl - Julia Voss Crafts and the Spiritual: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy - Monica Juneja Practical Formalist: Roger Fry - Beate Söntgen Agitation: Sergei Tretyakov - Valerija Kuzema Snapshot: Alexander Rodchenko - Margarete Vöhringer Decomposition: Georges Bataille - Malte Rauch Decolonizing Art History: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy - Parul Dave Mukherji Advocating the Collective: Luis Vidales - Camilo Sarmiento Jaramillo Materialism and Proximity: Francis Ponge - Isabelle Graw Censorship and the Authorial “I”: Lothar Lang - Valerie Hortolani and Valerija Kuzema Trespasser of Gatekeeping: Oscar Masotta - Juli Carson Embedded Chronicler: Victor Hakim - Monique Bellan Undisciplined: Peter Gorsen - Thorsten Schneider In Drag: Mary Josephson - Astrid Mania Self-Reflective Connectivity: Lawrence Alloway - Beatrice von Bismarck Vulnerability and Resistance: Marta Traba - Florencia Malbrán Fellow-Feeling: Roland Barthes - Sarah Wilson Documentation as Dialogue: Allan Sekula - Michael F. Zimmermann Deculturization: Annemarie Sauzeau-Boetti - Sabeth Buchmann Coming Together: Demas Nwoko and New Culture - Azu Nwagbogu Gathering Voices, Feeling Relations: Arlene Raven - Oona Lochner Drawing Another Line: Ješa Denegri - Maja and Reuben Fowkes Chronopolitical Intervention: Mark Sinker - Ana Teixeira Pinto A Drifting Mind: Lynne Tillman - Isabel Mehl Criteria Against All Odds: Stefan Germer - Peter Geimer Decentering: Igor Zabel - Maja and Reuben Fowkes Tactics of Alienation: Walid Sadek - Ghalya Saadawi Art Historiography: Vardan Azatyan - Angela Harutyunyan Hatchet Job: Julia Voss - Wolfgang Kemp Bridging Borders: Helia Darabi - Anita Hosseini Through the Digital Looking Glass: Hito Steyerl - Ying Sze Pek The Cultural Logic of Financialization: Melanie Gilligan - Holger Kuhn Camp and Credit Cards: Takashi Kashima - Yuriko Furuhata Nearly Unbiased: Patrick Mudekereza - Julia Grosse Retroactivity: Peter Richter - Andreas Beyer Troll: Anonymous - Miriam Rasch Queering: Adwait Singh - Rebecca John Culture and Capital: Claire Bishop - Anna Kipke Merging: Enos Nyamor - Yvette Mutumba Follow the Money: Aruna D’Souza - David Mielecke Reviews from 4Columns - Aruna D’Souza The Series: Jennifer Higgie - Julia Voss Biographies Bibliography Index of Names Colophon and credits