Art criticism and the state of feminist art criticism
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Deepwell, K. 2020. Art criticism and the state of feminist art criticism. Arts. 9 (1). https://doi.org/10.3390/arts9010028
Type | Article |
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Title | Art criticism and the state of feminist art criticism |
Authors | Deepwell, K. |
Abstract | This essay is in four parts. The first offers a critique of James Elkins and Michael Newman’s book The State of Art Criticism (Routledge, 2008) for what it tells us about art criticism in academia and journalism and feminism; the second considers how a gendered analysis measures the “state” of art and art criticism as a feminist intervention; and the third, how neo-liberal mis-readings of Linda Nochlin and Laura Mulvey in the art world represent feminism in ideas about “greatness” and the “gaze”, whilst avoiding feminist arguments about women artists or their work, particularly on “motherhood”. In the fourth part, against the limits of the first three, the state of feminist art criticism across the last fifty years is reconsidered by highlighting the plurality of feminisms in transnational, transgenerational and progressive alliances. |
Keywords | feminism; feminist art criticism; feminist art; art criticism |
Research Group | CREATE/Feminisms cluster |
Publisher | MDPI AG |
Journal | Arts |
ISSN | |
Electronic | 2076-0752 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 25 Feb 2020 |
Mar 2020 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 25 Nov 2019 |
Accepted | 20 Feb 2020 |
Submitted | 25 Nov 2019 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Copyright Statement | © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. |
Additional information | This article belongs to the Special Issue Reconsidering the State(s) of Criticism. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/arts9010028 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000525038000019 |
Language | English |
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