Art critic
Art critics describe, evaluate and classify contemporary works of the visual arts according to historical, aesthetic-formal and generic criteria . As a profession, art critics first appeared in France in the 17th century. Her art reviews were and are mainly published in the feature sections of periodicals (daily and weekly newspapers), in specialist journals and books as monographs .
Career
There is no specific university degree in art criticism . Art critics are therefore self-taught , but they have often completed a degree in art and / or have knowledge and experience from related training paths and / or their own practice in the field of fine arts.
Work areas
According to the International Art Critics Association ( AICA ), art critics can be defined as those who work in the following four fields:
- Press periodicals, radio broadcasts, television or video , electronic media ;
- Publication of works on art history, aesthetics or criticism;
- Teaching activity in art criticism, art history, aesthetics, in the curatorial being or in art at a higher to the highest level;
- Curatorial activity and research with the aim of education or science, including scientific or critical texts for museums or galleries whose main aim is not of a commercial nature.
The job title is not protected in Germany - anyone can call themselves an art critic and work as such.
Well-known art critic
This list does not claim to be exhaustive, but tries to name at least some of the most important art critics.
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Jean-Christophe Ammann
- Charles Baudelaire
- Eduard Beaucamp
- John Berger
- Ursula Bode
- Bazon Brock
- Coosje van Bruggen
- Carl Einstein
- Arthur C. Danto
- Christian Demand
- Denis Diderot
- Michael Fried
- Curt Glaser
- Isabelle Graw
- Clement Greenberg
- Boris Groys
- Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub
- Klaus Honnef
- Gottfried Knapp
- Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne
- Paolo Levi
- Catrin Lorch
- Julius Meier-Graefe
- Günter Metken
- Heinz Ohff
- Hans Platschek
- Hanno Rauterberg
- Herbert Read
- Pierre Restany
- Arthur Roessler
- Harold Rosenberg
- Max Schasler
- Werner Schmalenbach
- Albert Schulze-Vellinghausen
- Vittorio Sgarbi
- Susan Sunday
- Werner Spies
- Julia Voss
- Louis Vauxcelles
literature
- Albert Dresdner : The emergence of art criticism in the context of the history of European art life . New edition. Brockmann, Munich 1968 (EA 1915).
- Keyword art editor , in: Cornelia Schmitz-Berning: Vocabulary of National Socialism . 2nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2007, p. 366f.
See also
Web links
- aica.de Website of the "International Art Critics Association" - the German section of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA)