Taking a Stance
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85 – Taking a Stance
Taking a Stance
Fall 2015
Few critics have yet dared to challenge the intellectual power assumed by certain institutions and forums that shape artistic trends and condition the discourses. esse opens the debate on the forms and conditions at play when taking a critical stance in the world of contemporary art today. What does art criticism imply in today’s context?
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