Trials of photography

Author

Shaviro, Steven

Document type

Compte rendu de livres

Language

English

Source

Arts magazine. 1991, Num. 2, Vol. 66, p. 31-34, 3 ill. (1 col.)

ISSN

0004-4059

Abstract (en)

The reviewer focuses on the first two of these three examples of postmodernist photography criticism, and finds that while The critical image is more concerned with theory and with contemporary photographic practices and The contest of meaning is more historical in focus, both volumes reveal limitations and failures in their critical approach, which he calls woefully inadequate to recent postmodern and political art practices; he also faults the critics for their puritanical insistence on holding art accountable.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Pictorial arts -- Photography
• Photography
• United States
• 1900-2000
• Postmodernism
• Art criticism
• Kruger, Barbara, b.1945
• Ideology

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Photographie
• Photographie
• Etats-Unis
• 1900-2000
• Post-modernisme
• Critique d'art
• Kruger, Barbara, n.1945
• Idéologie

Review of

19921001-00433169, 19921001-00433170, 19921001-00433171

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19921001-00433172

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