The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design

ISBN-13: 9781138189232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 464 str.

Christopher Brisbin; Myra Thiessen

Opis

The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design presents an in-depth exploration of criticism and criticality in theory and practice across the disciplines of art, architecture, and design.

Recenzje

"This is an exceptionally carefully assembled book. Its editors have a well-defined purpose: they want to show how design can look to architecture and fine art for models of critical practice, and how architects and artists can see how they might learn from the ways design is socially contextualized. Criticism inhabits this book in Protean fashion: as a profession, an historical artifact, a philosophic position, a hope, a form of experimental writing, a family of theories, a material practice, and above all as conversation and a sense of community."

James Elkins, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, USA

 

"‘Like,’ Facebook’s ubiquitous and reflexive sign of thumbs up affirmation, is as close as many people get to a critical discourse in the age of the Internet. So, it is timely, and critical (in all meanings of the word), that The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design offers readers a compelling array of essays on its topic. The book’s organizing principle – considering criticality ‘of,’ ‘through,’ and ‘in’ – considers the roles of artifacts, the creative process, disciplinarity, media, historical precedent, theoretical basis and social, economic and political contexts. Informed, thoughtful criticism of the built environment and its implications, and of the interwoven systems it resides in, is necessary now more than ever. The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design will help scholars, faculty and students learn about criticality, and more importantly, to develop their own critical voices."

Steven McCarthy, University of Minnesota, USA

Spis treści

Part I  1. Criticality; or woe is me, what is it good for! Part II  2. You, me, I, or we: criticality through situated creative practice/s  3. Chris Brisbin & Myra Thiessen  4. Crits, Consensus, and Criticality: Making Artists in the Contemporary Art School  5. Curatorial Practice as a Critical Agent in Urban Contexts  6. How to be a Good Witness: The Architecture Curator  7. Deviant Theory  8. An Outline Politics of The Critical  9. Configuring Critique (or ‘the art of not being governed quite so much’)  Part III  10. Looks aren’t everything, except when they are: the critical aesthetics of un-critical and post-critical artefacts  11. The After Critical  12. On Architecture’s Metacriticality  13. Horse horse tiger tiger: the critical functioning of Chinese copying and assemblage aesthetics  14. A Marxist Critique of Iconic Architecture  15. Performance-Critical Architecture  16. Ungraspable Criticality: Surface in Architecture  17. Reading Resonance: Post Factum Documentation as Creative Criticism  Part IV 18. Don’t take this the wrong way, but … : the changing nature of media, medium, and message in art, architecture, and design criticism  19. The Landscape of Practices: decolonizing landscape architecture  20. Of Neon, Road Signs, and Head Shapes: A Case for Generative Criticism  21. Best Made Re Made: Critical Interventions in the Online Marketplace  22. Professional reflection and visual arguments for patients: Is graphic design really a critical practice? 23. But, it won an award: a look at communication design ‘excellence’  24. On the expert and the amateur in online architectural commentary  25. Insta-critique: critical practices in the moment of social media  Part V  26. Less woe, more wow!: shifting disciplinary viewpoints to make a critical cultural difference