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Understand the Complexities of Art Criticism in a Straightforward and Readable Manner An Introduction to Art Criticism offers a thorough overview of art criticism as it has been practiced since the 1700s. The text is built around excerpts from the work of hundreds of historical and contemporary critics, including a substantial history of art criticism and chapters on the fundamental aspects of criticism and the formation of an individual voice. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers should be able to: Understand and appreciate the rich history of art criticism as a field Analyze the “voice” of critics

Kerr Houston Kerr Houston is a professor of art history, theory, and criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he has taught since 2002. At MICA regularly leads seminars on art criticism, and also teaches courses in the history of art history, in ancient art, and in Islamic art and architecture. He has written for a number of journals, including Camera Obscura, Gesta, Source: Notes in the History of Art, and Early Modern Visual Culture; he has also authored criticism for several magazines and newspapers. This is his first book.

Table of Contents BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS: Chapter 1: A History of Art Criticism Chapter 2: Description and Contextualization Chapter 3: Interpretation and Analysis Chapter 4: Judgment and Evaluation Chapter 5: Individual Critical Styles: Tone and Voice

It is conventional to explain the origins of criticism as following the establishment of regular art exhibitions by the Académie in the Louvre in 1737. . . . Yet the various ingredients that came together to form Salon criticism pre-existed the instigation of annual exhibitions. Richard Wrigley, in The Origins of French Art Criticism, 1993 In his immortal Salons, Diderot . . . founded the criticism of painting Théophile Gautier, 1854 The Birth of a Genre

Artemis of Ephesus The Ephesian Artemis, the "great mother goddess" also mentioned in the New Testament (Acts, 19), was extremely popular in the ancient world, as we might deduce from the fact that copies of her cult statue have been excavated in many parts of the Roman Empire. O Templo em Éfeso – Turquia O Templo de Ártemis, imaginado por Maarten van Heemskerck (1498 - 1574)

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Xie He CHINESE PAINTER AND CRITIC Xie He, Wade-Giles romanization Hsieh Ho (flourished 6th century), Chinese figure painter and critic who is best remembered for collating or inventing the famous “Six Principles” (liufa) of Chinese painting. The “Six Principles” introduce Xie’s Gu Huapin Lu (“Classified Record of Painters of Former Times”), which rates 27 painters in three classes of descending merit, each with three subdivisions. The “Six Principles” have inevitably acquired new and even different meanings through the ages, but generally they may be paraphrased as follows: creativity (or “spirit resonance”), structural use of the brush, proper representation of objects, specific coloration of those ... (100 of 130 words)

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