BACT -305                                        Art Criticism                                                  3(3-0)

Course description: An overview of the description, interpretation, and evaluation of visual art as practiced in the discipline of art criticism. ... Students will read a range of past and present art critics and write several examples of art criticism based on direct observation of contemporary art work

Course Contents:

• Aestheticism
• What is Art in general
• Criticism of Art
• Identification / Description/ Interpretation
• Varieties of criticism
• The Art and crafts Movement
• Morales  versus Aestheticism

Recommended Books:

• Barnett Newman Selected Writings Interviews, (ed.) by John P. O'Neill, p.: 201, University of California Press, 1990.
• Clement Greenberg,Art and Culture Critical essays,("The Crisis of the Easel Picture"), Beacon Press, 1961 pp.:154-157
• William C. Seitz,Mark Tobey by William C. Seitz, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
• Levin on Hopper, "An intimate biography"