A Note on Socially Engaged Art Criticism (2017)

By Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

 

This article is a discussion of Grant Kester’s notion of socially-engaged art criticism via a retrospective mapping of the four most important 1990s artistic practices: relational art, institutional critique, tactical media and socially-engaged art.

While both relational, or participatory, art and institutional critique seem to have run out of steam, and have fused more or less seamlessly with the institution of art, socially-engaged art still seems to hold critical potential by making use of the relative autonomy of art beyond the narrow confines of the art institution.

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Citation: Rasmussen, Mikkel Bolt. ‘A Note on Socially Engaged Art Criticism’. The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics25, no. 53 (2017).

Read it here: https://tidsskrift.dk/nja/article/view/26406/23216

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Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen (1973) is an art historian and political theorist. He is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen and has published books and articles on the revolutionary tradition and modern art.

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