What it means to write about art - Jarrett Earnest

The most comprehensive portrait of art criticism ever assembled, as told
by the leading writers of our time.

In the last fifty years, art criticism has flourished as never before. Moving
from niche to mainstream, it is now widely taught at universities, practiced
in newspapers, magazines, and online, and has become the subject of
debate by readers, writers, and artists worldwide. Equal parts oral history and analysis of craft,
What it Means to Write About
Art


offers an unprecedented overview of American art writing. These thirty
in-depth conversations chart the role of the critic as it has evolved from
the 1960s to today, providing an invaluable resource for aspiring artists
and writers alike.

Jarrett
Earnest's
wide-ranging
conversations
with
critics,
historians,
journalists, novelists, poets, and theorists-each of whom approach the
subject from unique positions-illustrate different ways of writing, thinking,
and looking at art.

Interviews with: Hilton Als, John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Yve-Alain Bois, Huey Copeland, Holland
Cotter, Douglas Crimp, Darby English, Hal Foster, Michael Fried, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve,
Dave Hickey, Siri Hustvedt, Kellie Jones, Chris Kraus, Rosalind Krauss, Lucy Lippard, Fred
Moten, Eileen Myles, Molly Nesbit, Jed Perl, Barbara Rose, Jerry Saltz, Peter Schjeldahl, Barry
Schwabsky, Paul Chaat Smith, Roberta Smith, Lynne Tillman, Michele Wallace, and John Yau