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Art Criticism Online: A History
Charlotte Frost
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12 Mar 2019ISBN 9781780240398 (Paperback)
339 pp., Free UK Shipping
About
The mainstream press often celebrates the ‘tweeting’, ‘facebooking’ and ‘gramming’ of art commentary. Yet online forms of art criticism have a much longer and more varied history than we think. Far preceding the art discussions happening on the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Before art discussions took place on social media, there were networked art projects and art critical Bulletin Board Systems, email discussion lists and blogs. Art Criticism Online: A History provides the first in-depth history of art criticism following the Internet. The book considers the core stages of development and considers where critical practice is heading in the future.
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Charlotte Frost's Art Criticism Online provides a much needed account and indispensable survey of the ways in which Western art criticism has been profoundly affected and changed by the online environment. Building on the history of networked and participatory criticism predating the Internet, Frost traces three different phases of online art criticism unfolding in early discussion groups, on listservs, and within today's blogosphere and social media platforms. The book expertly captures nuanced transformations in art criticism's content, form and style, analyzing how approaches have shifted in response to the evolution of the art world terrain. Art Criticism Online successfully manages to provide readers with a map of the dynamic expressions of today's critical culture. --Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art, Whitney Museum, Director/Chief Curator, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons/The New School
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'Art Criticism Now'
Chapter 1. ‘Alternative Spaces for Art Criticism’
Chapter 2. ‘Digital Criticism’
Chapter 3. ‘Emerging Online Art Critical Tactics’
Chapter 4. ‘The Art Blogosphere’
Chapter 5. ‘Online Arts Journals’
Chapter 6. ‘Art Criticism and Social Media’
Conclusion: Art Criticism Next’
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Artworks Cited
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Index