Though one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dali is typically seen as peripheral to the dominant practices of modernist painting. Roger Rothman s Tiny Surrealism argues that this marginal position is itself a coherent response to modernism. It demonstrates how Dali s practice was organized around the logic of the inconsequential by focusing on Dali s identification with things that are literally tiny (ants, sewing needles, breadcrumbs, blackheads, etc.) as well as those that are metaphorically small (the trivial, the weak, the superficial, and the...

Critique has long been a central concept within art practice and theory. Since the emergence of Conceptual Art, artists have been expected by critics, curators, and art school faculty to focus their work on exposing and debunking ideologies of power and domination. Recently, however, the effectiveness of cultural critique has come into question. The appearance of concepts such as the "speculative," the "reparative," and the "constructive" suggests an emerging postcritical paradigm.

Beyond Critique takes stock of the current discourse around this issue. With some calling for a...