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2 unusual facts about art criticism


Art criticism

After visiting the studios of several Argentine artists in the company of the young Director of the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires Rafael Squirru, Malraux declared the new vanguard to lie in Argentina's new artistic movements.

Faouzi Al-Kach

As a writer, Faouzi covered a wide spectrum of subjects, including poetry, art critique, political commentary and socio-economic analysis.


Barker Fairley

Although educated and brought up in a strong European tradition and background, Fairley's important life's scholarship in German literature and art criticism was done in Canada and was about Canadian art and Canadian culture.

Contimporanul

Edited by Ion Vinea, Contimporanul was prolific in the area of art criticism, dedicating entire issues to modern art phenomena, and organizing the Bucharest International Modern Art Exhibit in December 1924 (with the participation of Constantin Brâncuși).

Mazen Asfour

Dr. Azfour spent almost 15 years in Florence and Bologna, studying “museologia”, Art criticism, aesthetics, semiology where Prof. Umberto Eco is taking his cultural role at the University of Bologna.


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Alicia Candiani

She studied at National University of Córdoba, Argentina (M.F.A. 1976, Architect 1978): University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (Art Criticism 1989-91) and Iowa State University, United States (Digital Imaging Techniques, 1991–92).

Clarence Lusane

His essay, “Rhapsodic Aspirations: Rap, Race, and Power Politics,” won the 1993 Larry Neal Writers’ Competition Grand Prize for Art Criticism.

Elizabeth Frank

She has also written monographs of Jackson Pollock and Esteban Vicente as well as numerous articles on literature, art, and literary and art criticism in such publications as the New York Times Book Review, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Art in America, Partisan Review, New York Arts Journal, Salmagundi, Journal of Modern Literature, and ARTnews.

Frances Minto Elliot

She also wrote three novels and published art criticism and gossipy, sometimes scandalous, sketches for The Art Journal, Bentley's Miscellany, and The New Monthly Magazine, often under the pseudonym, "Florentia".

John Yau

Artists' books include projects with Squeak Carnwath, Richard Tuttle, Norbert Prangenberg, Hanns Schimannsky, Archie Rand, Norman Bluhm, Pat Steir, Suzanne McClelland, Robert Therrien, Leiko Ikemura, and Jürgen Partenheimer (a.o.), his books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996) and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993).

Lawrence Rinder

He has published poetry, fiction, and art criticism in Zyzzyva, Fresh Men 2: New Voices in Gay Fiction, Flash Art, Artforum, nest, The Village Voice, Fillip, and Parkett.

Mauricio Wiesenthal

His works include fiction, biography, history, poetry, biography, literary and art criticism, including medicine and œnology.

Michael Fried

In the late summer of 1962, Fried returned to the U.S, where he combined studying for a Ph.D in art history at Harvard with writing art criticism, initially for Art International, and curating the exhibition Three American painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum.

P. Surendran

His book on the famous artist A. Ramachandran won the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi's award for the best book on art criticism.

William M. Laffan

In 1877 Laffan went to work for the New York Sun, then owned by Charles Anderson Dana, as a general writer, often writing art criticism.