Foreword
Why Art Criticism? An Introduction
Commentary
Source Text
Passion, Performance and Soberness
beate söntgen
denis diderot
Essays on Painting
In Conversation
johannes grave
clemens brentano, achim von arnim
In Front of a Friedrich Seascape with Capuchin Monk
heinrich von kleist
Feelings Before Friedrich’s Seascape
Emotional Collectivities
stephanie marchal
julius meier-graefe
Fellows in Reality
The Leak
julia voss
berta zuckerkandl
The Klimt Affair
Klimt’s letter to the Education Ministry
Crafts and the Spiritual
monica juneja
ananda k. coomaraswamy
The Indian Craftsman
Practical Formalist
beate söntgen
roger fry
The Futurists
The Case of the Late Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, O. M.
Independent Gallery: Vanessa Bell and Othon Friesz
Agitation
valerija kuzema
sergei tretyakov
The Work of Viktor Palmov
Photo-Notes
Snapshot
margarete vöhringer
alexander rodchenko
Against the Synthetic Portrait, For the Snapshot
Decomposition
malte rauch
georges bataille
Critiques
Decolonizing Art History
parul dave mukherji
ananda k. coomaraswamy
Why Exhibit Works of Art?
Advocating the Collective
camilo sarmiento jaramillo
luis vidales
The Aesthetic of Our Time Colombian Painting
Materialism and Proximity
isabelle graw
francis ponge
Note on the Hostages, Paintings by Fautrier
Censorship and the Authorial “I”
valerie hortolani and valerija kuzema
lothar lang
Annotations on Painting in Leipzig, with an Update on Tübke
Hermann Glöckner
The Hans Grundig Exhibition
Harald Metzkes at the National Gallery
Fragments on Art Criticism
Trespasser of Gatekeeping
juli carson
oscar masotta
I Committed a Happening
Embedded Chronicler
monique bellan
victor hakim
The Artistic and Literary Life: Reviews from La Revue du Liban et de l’Orient Arabe
Undisciplined
thorsten schneider
peter gorsen
Prolegomena to a Hedonistic Enlightenment
In Drag
astrid mania
mary josephson
Warhol: The Medium as Cultural Artifact
Self-Reflective Connectivity
beatrice von bismarck
lawrence alloway
Network: The Art World Described as a System
Vulnerability and Resistance
florencia malbrán
marta traba
Two Decades of Vulnerability in Latin American Visual Arts 1950/1970
Fellow-Feeling
sarah wilson
roland barthes
Réquichot and His Body
Documentation as Dialogue
michael f. zimmermann
allan sekula
On the Invention of Photographic Meaning
Introduction
Deculturization
sabeth buchmann
annemarie sauzeau-boetti
Negative Capability as Practice in Women’s Art
Coming Together: Demas Nwoko and New Culture
azu nwagbogu
bob bennett
Architecture and Environmental Designs
Gathering Voices, Feeling Relations
oona lochner
arlene raven
Two Lines of Sight and an Unexpected Connection: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison
Drawing Another Line
maja and reuben fowkes
ješa denegri
A New Turnaround
Chronopolitical Intervention
ana teixeira pinto
mark sinker
Loving the Alien in Advance of the Landing
A Drifting Mind
isabel mehl
lynne tillman
Madame Realism’s Diary: The Matisse Pages
Criteria Against All Odds
peter geimer
stefan germer
How Do I Find My Way Out of This Labyrinth? On the Necessity and Impossibility of Criteria for Judging Contemporary Art
Decentering
maja and reuben fowkes
igor zabel
The Soil in Which Art Grows
Greetings from the Provinces
Tactics of Alienation
ghalya saadawi
walid sadek
From Excavation to Dispersion: Configurations of Installation Art in Post-War Lebanon
Art Historiography
angela harutyunyan
vardan azatyan
Toward a Dilemmatic Archive:
Historicizing Contemporary Art in Armenia
Hatchet Job
wolfgang kemp
julia voss
What World Does this Prince Want to Rule?
Bridging Borders
anita hosseini
helia darabi
Found in Translation: Exile as a Productive Experience in the Work of Iranian Artists
Dispatch: Tehran
Through the Digital Looking Glass
ying sze pek
hito steyerl
Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy
If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms
The Cultural Logic of Financialization
holger kuhn
melanie gilligan
The Beggar’s Pantomine: Performance and its Appropriations
Camp and Credit Cards
yuriko furuhata
takashi kashima
This Excess Called Lassen: What Is it That Art History Cannot Write?
Nearly Unbiased
julia grosse
patrick mudekereza
Homage: Djilatendo Remixing Africa, Again
Wolfgang Tillmans at the Échangeur
Retroactivity
andreas beyer
peter richter
Male Morals
Troll: Anonymous
miriam rasch
reader laureate
Through My Reading Glasses
Queering
rebecca john
adwait singh
Staying With the Sirens
On the Resilience of the Past
Cracks in the Wall
Into the Light
Culture and Capital
anna kipke
claire bishop
Palace in Plunderland: Claire Bishop on the Shed
Merging
yvette mutumba
enos nyamor
In a Hypermediatized World. Visions of Cultural Journalism
Follow the Money
david mielecke
aruna d’souza
Reviews from 4Columns
The Series
julia voss
jennifer higgie
Instagram, March 12, 2021
Biographies
Bibliography
Index of Names
Colophon and credits
