Why Art Criticism? A Reader

cover Title Colophon Contents Foreword Why Art Criticism? An Introduction Passion, Performance, and Soberness Beate Söntgen Essays on Painting Denis Diderot In Conversation Johannes Grave In Front of a Friedrich Seascape with Capuchin Monk Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim Feelings Before Friedrich's Seascape Heinrich von Kleist Emotional Collectivities Stephanie Marchal Fellows in Reality Julius Meier-Graefe The Leak Julia Voss The Klimt Affair Berta Zuckerkandl Klimt's letter to the Education Ministry Crafts and the Spiritual Monica Juneja The Indian Craftsman Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Practical Formalist Beate Söntgen The Futurists Roger Fry The Case of the Late Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, O. M. Independent Gallery: Vanessa Bell and Othon Friesz Agitation Valerija Kuzema The Work of Viktor Palmov Sergei Tretyakov Photo-Notes Snapshot Margarete Vöhringer Against the Synthetic Portrait, For the Snapshot Alexander Rodchenko Decomposition Malte Rauch Critiques Georges Bataille Decolonizing Art History Parul Dave Mukherji Why Exhibit Works of Art? Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Advocating the Collective Camilo Sarmiento Jaramillo The Aesthetic of Our Time Luis Vidales Colombian Painting Materialism and Proximity Isabelle Graw Note on the Hostages, Paintings by Fautrier Francis Ponge Censorship and the Authorial "I" Valerie Hortolani and Valerija Kuzema Annotations on Painting in Leipzig, with an Update on Tübke Lothar Lang Hermann Glöckner The Hans Grundig Exhibition, 1973 Harald Metzkes at the Nationalgalerie, 1978 Fragments on Art Criticism Trespasser of Gatekeeping Juli Carson I Committed a Happening Oscar Masotta Embedded Chronicler Monique Bellan The Artistic and Literary Life: Reviews from La Revue du Liban et de l'Orient Arabe Victor Hakim Undisciplined Thorsten Schneider Prolegomena to a Hedonistic Enlightenment Peter Gorsen In Drag Astrid Mania Warhol: The Medium as Cultural Artifact Mary Josephson Self-Reflective Connectivity Beatrice von Bismarck Network: The Art World Described as a System Lawrence Alloway Vulnerability and Resistance Florencia Malbrán Two Decades of Vulnerability in Latin American Visual Arts 1950/1970 Marta Traba Fellow-Feeling Sarah Wilson Réquichot and His Body Roland Barthes Documentation as Dialogue Michael F.