Art critiques : a guide / James Elkins.

Elkins, James, 1955-
Washington, DC : New Academia Publishing, c2012.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references.
  • Time for critique! — A sample critique — Critiques aren’t just conversations — Critique formats — How long should a critique be? — The first ten seconds of the critique — The last ten minutes of the critique — Music critiques, dance critiques, theater critiques — That critique room — What if you didn’t put in much work on your art? — Managing interdisciplinary critiques — What if you make very different kinds of work? — Student + teacher + artwork = confusion — All the ways to fail — Five kinds of critiques: 1. The silent teacher critique — What if you’re asked to talk about your work? — Five kinds of critiques: 2. The conceptual critique — Five kinds of critiques: 3. The boot camp critique — Five kinds of critiques: 4. The silent student critique — Five kinds of critiques: 5. The anti-critique — Critiques don’t always build on one another, but start again and again from scratch — Critiques drift from topic to topic — Teachers make their own artworks, different from yours — When the teacher is bored, and the work is just average — Teachers make idiosyncratic pronouncements — Five allegories for critiques: 1. Critiques are like seductions, full of emotion — Five allegories for critiques: 2. Critiques are like different languages, all spoken at once — Five allegories for critiques: 3. Critiques are like storytelling — Five allegories for critiques: 4. Critiques are like battles — Five allegories for critiques: 5. Critiques are like trials — Does your teacher like the other teachers? — Therapy — Being close to your work, being too close to your work — Five purposes of criticism — A sixth purpose of criticism, and some words for success — M. H. Abrams’s theory — Criticism, critique, crit, criticality, Kritik — Talking about composition is easier than talking about race — Some teachers are judicative, and others descriptive — Tinkering with the critque format — Three big projects: 1 Investigate the chain of questions — Three big projects: 2. Transcribe your critique — Three b

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