New Book | Art Criticism Online: A History by Charlotte Frost.
The mainstream press often celebrates the ‘tweeting’, ‘facebooking’ and
‘gramming’ of art commentary. Yet online forms of art criticism have a much
longer and more varied history than we think. Far preceding the art discussions
happening on the likes of Twitter and Facebook. Before art discussions took
place on social media, there were networked art projects and art critical
Bulletin Board Systems, email discussion lists and blogs. Art Criticism Online:
A History provides the first in-depth history of art criticism following the
Internet. The book considers the core stages of development and where critical
practice is heading in the future.
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Charlotte Frost's Art Criticism Online provides a much needed account and
indispensable survey of the ways in which Western art criticism has been
profoundly affected and changed by the online environment. Building on the
history of networked and participatory criticism predating the Internet, Frost
traces three different phases of online art criticism unfolding in early
discussion groups, on listservs, and within today's blogosphere and social
media platforms. The book expertly captures nuanced transformations in art
criticism's content, form and style, analyzing how approaches have shifted in
response to the evolution of the art world terrain. Art Criticism Online
successfully manages to provide readers with a map of the dynamic expressions
of today's critical culture. --Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art,
Whitney Museum, Director/Chief Curator, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center,
Parsons/The New School
https://www.gylphi.co.uk/books/ArtCriticism
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