'Over the past decade, we have seen remarkable levels of market speculation and investment in contemporary art while world economies find themselves on uncertain ground. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the efficacy and function of art criticism focused on the role of judgment and valuation in contemporary art writing. Yet while the economy of contemporary art seems to demand rigorous critique, art writing often functions solely in the service of an expanding, unregulated art market. It was in the context of this conflicted set of concerns that, in February 2009, Artspeak and Fillip presented Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism, a forum that laid the groundwork for this publication. Organized in conjunction with a reading room and discussion series held at Artspeak, the forum sought to offer a space to trouble the so-called crisis plaguing discourse around contemporary art criticism by deferring the question of art criticism's pending doom in favour of a discussion that stressed pragmatics over sensationalism and morbidity.

[...] This volume presents papers developed out of the two-day forum and an excerpt of transcripts from the public discussion during the question periods.' (Excerpt from 'Preface' by Jeff Khonsary and Melanie O'Brian)

Brief biography of contributors included.
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REF.KHJ6
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2010

No of pages

175

ISBN / ISSN

9780973813364

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Worse than Kenosis - Tirdad ZOLGHADR

Three or Four Types of Intimacy - Tom MORTON

A Tale of Two Criticisms - Sven LUTTICKEN

Notes on the Demise and Persistence of Judgment - William WOOD

Say Who I Am / Or a Broad Private Wink - Maria FUSCO

Judgment, Objecthood, Temporality - Diedrich DIEDERICHSEN

Times and Places of Critique - Jeff DERKSEN

Forum Discussion Transcripts with Prefatory Remarks by Kristina Lee Podesva - Kristina LEE PODESVA

Afterword - James ELKINS

Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism
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