I hope you’ll take a moment to visit NPR’s Archive page for a link to the April 30, 2008, broadcast of Talk of the Nation which dealt with movie critics and how much traditional journalistic criticism has been replaced by criticism on the Internet (I know, I know, it’s film…but the class – thank heaven – is criticism not art criticism).
The conversation (which you can, and I hope will, download) touches on a number of questions we’ll examine this summer. Among them,
What’s the role of localism in criticism? (Or to put it another way, why don’t art reviews get syndicated so you can read the review of the Murakami show from the LA papers or the Olafur Eliasson show from the San Francisco papers instead of taking up space in the New York papers?)
What are the criteria for preparing a critic for her career? Can everyone be a critic?
What’s the relationship between a critic and his readers? Specifically, what’s the relationship between the (disinterested) critical conversation of art and the economics of talking about it?
Is criticism in the business of taking things too seriously, preventing enjoyment, and sublimating pleasure (however it may be defined) to intellectualism?
In the next few days, I'll be sending out info on books and things I want you to read in preparation for class. Hope you're well.
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