Vortex of Silence: Art Criticism Beyond Aesthetic Categories

by Marina Abramović and Doris von Drathen

German art historian and critic Doris von Drathen has here produced a collection of 24 texts on 24 of the world's famous contemporary artists. In it, she proposes nothing less than a new method of art criticism: an anti-criticism that goes above and beyond aesthetic categories, and against the colonization of art. Paradoxically, the more famous an artist, the more their works seem obscured by inflexible classifications, wild misreading and deceptive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8881584476
• ISBN13: 9788881584475
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Charta
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher