Projektnummer

0058645

Zusammenfassung

Critique is co-originary with modern culture and a fundamental instrument of modern self-awareness. This is particularly true of art criticism: It equally deals with a viewer's sensory-reflexive encounter with an object as well as with himself/herself as the discerning and reflecting subject. The current state of research is diametrically opposed to the relevance of the phenomenon: The genesis, history and methods of art criticism have only been touched upon. The currently prevalent talk of a "crisis" in art criticism is lacking a thorough analysis of the genre and its purpose. Thus, t...