{"id":216,"date":"2013-05-23T13:57:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=216"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:10:47","slug":"art-critiques-a-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Art Critiques: A Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0990693929\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/elkinscritiques1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-224\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>James Elkins (2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a guidebook for art students at the college level (BA, BFA, MFA, PhD). &#8220;Elkins introduces refreshing commonsense in the tired and tiresome activity of the critique of art works by students. A dissection geared to avoid or delay a future autopsy of the field, the book uses case studies that teach as much about &#8216;how to&#8217; as they do about &#8216;how not to.&#8217; A nice and often funny exercise in debunking, <em>Art Critiques: A Guide<\/em> is also a fascinating analysis of the successes and failures in communication among people.&#8221; -Luis Camnitzer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Elkins (2011) This is a guidebook for art students at the college level (BA, BFA, MFA, PhD). &#8220;Elkins introduces refreshing commonsense in the tired and tiresome activity of the critique of art works by students. A dissection geared to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=216\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}