Art Criticism and the State of Feminist Art Criticism

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ID21974005
AutoresKaty Deepwell (0000-0001-8188-0895, Middlesex University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume9
Fascículo1
Páginas28
Data de publicação2020-02-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArts (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2076-0752 • E-ISSN: 2076-0752
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/arts9010028
OpenAlexW2998883042
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas28

This essay is in four parts. The first offers a critique of James Elkins and Michael Newman’s book The State of Art Criticism (Routledge, 2008) for what it tells us about art criticism in academia and journalism and feminism; the second considers how a gendered analysis measures the “state” of art and art criticism as a feminist intervention; and the third, how neo-liberal mis-readings of Linda Nochlin and Laura Mulvey in the art world represent feminism in ideas about “greatness” and the “gaze”, whilst avoiding feminist arguments about women artists or their work, particularly on “motherhood”. In the fourth part, against the limits of the first three, the state of feminist art criticism across the last fifty years is reconsidered by highlighting the plurality of feminisms in transnational, transgenerational and progressive alliances

Aesthetics · Art · Art criticism · Art history · Criticism · Feminism · Literature · Performance art · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Poetry Analysis and Criticism