Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary

Overview

Main description

Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary takes readers inside the world of contemporary art and shows them how to think, write, and talk about art. Throughout, the principles of art criticism are presented and applied to contemporary forms of American art giving students of art and art history a solid framework for critically considering contemporary art through describing, interpreting, evaluating, and theorizing.

Table of contents

1. About Art Criticism 2. Theory and Art Criticism 3. Describing Art 4. Interpreting Art 5. Judging Art 6. Writing and Talking About Art Notes Bibliography Index