when art critics attack
I’ve tried my hand at art crit this evening over on Wellingtonista.
I must be doing OK – just look at the words I managed to squeeze in:
- “hyperreal”
- “naïve”
- “ironic”
- “chimæric”
But I’m thinking I’ve missed an opportunity to go all out po-mo and start randomly inserting impressive words like:
- “context”
- “situated”
- “praxis” (what does that mean, BTW?)
- “gaze”
- “heterogeneity”
- “texts”
- “deconstruct”
- “hegemonic”
But I’ve forgotten how to do it. Probably just as well, really.

Martha
24 February 2006, 07:35 #
Chuck “biomorphic” in there and you’ve got an art history degree.
Alan
24 February 2006, 09:10 #
What about “phallocentric” though (that’s probably just an NCEA standard word these days)?
reshma
26 February 2006, 13:39 #
Well this is like a whole another language to me… Learning French is easier!