http://hragvartanian.com/2008/04/18/wsj-adds-its-voice-to-the-artspeak-debate/ art, culture, photography, writing, ideas Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:33:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://hragvartanian.com/2008/04/18/wsj-adds-its-voice-to-the-artspeak-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-1333 C-MONSTER.net. » Blog Archive » The Digest. 04.23.08. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:00:27 +0000 http://hragvartanian.com/?p=976#comment-1333 [...] to Go and Hrag Vartanian not wild about Eric Gibson’s take on coma-inducing artspeak in the [...] [...] to Go and Hrag Vartanian not wild about Eric Gibson’s take on coma-inducing artspeak in the [...]

]]> http://hragvartanian.com/2008/04/18/wsj-adds-its-voice-to-the-artspeak-debate/comment-page-1/#comment-1312 Catherine Spaeth Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:27:04 +0000 http://hragvartanian.com/?p=976#comment-1312 I'm really glad you caught this article, it plays into some really bad journalistic hype about the dangers of "conceptualism" and, as you address, a rather self-righteous attitude about what an arts-going public consists of. "So art criticism moved from the realm of visual experience to that of philosophy." Huh?! If all those writers of old that he waxes nostalgia for weren't writing about that as well, and if we weren't still dealing with the consequences of those contributions to a history of thought, there would be no arts writing at all. I’m really glad you caught this article, it plays into some really bad journalistic hype about the dangers of “conceptualism” and, as you address, a rather self-righteous attitude about what an arts-going public consists of. “So art criticism moved from the realm of visual experience to that of philosophy.” Huh?! If all those writers of old that he waxes nostalgia for weren’t writing about that as well, and if we weren’t still dealing with the consequences of those contributions to a history of thought, there would be no arts writing at all.

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