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Title: The Crisis of Criticism by Maurice Berger ISBN: 1-56584-417-3 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Summary: Essays question role of the critic and criticism
Comment: Arlene Croce wrote a review of "Still/Here", a dance choreographed by Bill T. Jones and published it in the New Yorker. She had not seen the work but wrote the review to protest Jones' use of terminally ill persons in his work, men with AIDS. As might be expected, Croce's article provoked a storm of protest. "The Crisis of Criticism" grew out of the controversy over Croce's article. The book is a collection of essays about criticism itself and addresses the questions of the critic's role in modern culture. Berger reprints Croce's article and a long rebuttal by Joyce Carol Oates. But the best two essays are by Michael Brenson (Resisting the Dangerous Journey: the Crisis of Journalistic Criticsm), and Sarah Rothenberg (Measuring the Immeasurable). The Brenson piece focuses on the critics that most of us read (in The New Yorker, the NY Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal) and castigates them for failing to deal with the major issues of contemporary art. Interestingly, Brenson finds them all deficient in even acknowledging the controversy over the NEA funding which he thinks is "the intersection for almost every major artistic cultural issue..." The essay by Sarah Rothenberg is a wonderful description of the role of the critic and, by extension, the role of "high culture" in civilized society. She rejects the absolute evaluation of artistic creativity by the marketplace, i.e. financial success and fame as the business of artistic promotion and self-promotion, and asks that art "define itself by values of its own." The role of the critic is to be apart from the marketplace: "critical commentary in terms that are idealistic rather than utilitarian". Croce's original article, by reviewing a performance that the critic had not seen, led to a reevaluation of the role of the critic - something she really asked for anyway.
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Title: Has Modernism Failed? by Suzi Gablik, Suzi Gabik ISBN: 0500273855 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: August, 1985 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture by Hal Foster ISBN: 1565847423 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design, 2nd Edition by Steven D. Heller, Teresa Fernandes, Steven Heller ISBN: 047117677X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 08 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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