I've just ordered a copy - thanks for prompting me. I meant to come to
the launch last Thursday, as I was on holiday last week, but I came up
to London on Wednesday night to go to a life-drawing class with an old
school friend of mine, and it rained so heavily that a load of trains
were cancelled on the way back, I missed the bus and had to walk home
(an hour and a half), and I ended up getting in at 2.30 in the morning.
I was too knackered to do it all over again the next day. The perils of
extreme weather events! It does sound like a really interesting book,
though.
Edward
On 23/06/2019 10:45, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
I just finished Charlotte Frost’s ‘Art Criticism Online’ , chomping
through it like a novel since it popped through my door a few days
ago. It’s tremendous- thoroughly researched, as near to comprehensive
as it could be without going to 1000 pages plus, rigorous but also
written in a spirit of great generosity and openness. You feel the
author is as excited now by all this as she ever was and having lived
through quite a lot of what she describes it seems to me she nails the
‘feel’ of so much of it. Despite its academic origins it has none of
the turgidity of style and wilful obscurity that mars so much
contemporary art writing - when a thing needs explaining it is
explained. It feels like it is potentially the start of both a debate
and a lot of other writing/activity around this area... I didn’t agree
with all of her conclusions but that is beside the point - it made my
thoughts pop in the very best of ways... I’m a richer person for
having read it... Highly recommended:) Michael
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