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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Craven (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 1980 |
| Issue | 46 |
| Pages | 209-220 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/1280046209 |
| OpenAlex | W4239016366 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
To understand the need for leftist art critics like John Berger, as well as the reason he is unusual, it is important to recognize the way art criticism embodies and is disembodied by the contradictions of modern society. At present, art criticism has regressed to a species of empiricism which hardly does more than give tautologic descriptions of art forms, just as avant-garde art has become appropriated by a system that now needs art to remain anarchistically apart. Since it is assumed that description can be neutral, a basic presupposition is always that, in carefully describing the art object, the critic has somehow "objectively" explained it — a presupposition which results in self-serving pronouncements about "taste" and "quality" that ironically bear witness to the social pretensions of those who make them
Aesthetics · Art · Art criticism · Art history · Criticism · Empiricism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Object (grammar · Performance art · Presupposition · Quality (philosophy · Taste · Witness · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Philosophy · Psychology
Reading Humanitarian Intervention
Changing Perspectives on Performance Collaboration
Literary Representation of Animal Captivity
Les chiens du rêve américain
“A formidavel confusão da natureza”
Memoria visual de la pandemia Covid
‘In The Empire of the Senses’ and the Narrative Horizons of Comics
“The grass was me … the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me”
Everybody’s Child
From Social Deviance to Art
Pets and protein
Fetal Views
Unnatural History? Deconstructing the Walking with Dinosaurs Phenomenon
Au-delà du jardin
Fierce and Free, or Caged and Cowed
The menagerie of Berggasse 19
Agir avec l'animal. Pour une approche ethnographique des relations hybrides
Partaking of Life
Portraits of Grief
Dominion, Stewardship and Reconciliation in the Accounts of Ordinary People Eating Animals
Archaeological Visions
The New Cinema Going to the Dogs? The Encounter with Animal Otherness in the FilmEl aura
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |