Introductory essay : The recovery of criticism / Michael Schreyach -- Starting points. The specificity of criticism and its need for philosophy / Michael Newman -- Critical reflections / Boris Groys -- On the absence of judgment in art criticism / James Elkins -- What is a theorist? / Irit Rogoff -- Is this anything? or, criticism in the university / Stephen Melville -- The art seminars -- Assessments -- Afterwords. The states of art criticism / James Elkins and Michael Newman
Summary
'The State of Art Criticism' presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history