Criticizing Art - Understanding the Current

Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, a book titled as such, not only takes readers into the world of contemporary art but also shows them how to think, write, and speak about art. The work in your hands contains all the principles of art criticism while simultaneously demonstrating these principles practically through contemporary examples of American art. Furthermore, this book offers art and art history students a complete framework that will enable them to address contemporary art critically through the activities of description, interpretation, evaluation, and theorization. We present the revised edition of Terry Barrett’s Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, whose other books Why Is That Art? and Criticizing Photographs have also been published by our publishing house.