Mon portrait par Bonnat : imaginaire scénique de l’homme politique républicain by Florence Fix

“…His academic and dark style however was criticized by art critics and humourists; hence his portraits put on stage in character comedies have to be read as critics of the very people they represent and of himself as an official artist.…”
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Les nuages qui passent: réflexions sur la peinture des nuages en France au XVIIIe siècle by Katalin Bartha-Kovács

“…It presents some of the characteristic functions of cloud painting, by comparing two ways in which clouds were represented by painters and commented on by art critics of the period: on the one hand, the light clouds of rococo painting (the works of Watteau and Fragonard), and on the other hand, those that appear in the sublime seascapes (painted by Vernet and de Loutherbourg).…”
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Les Salons de Diderot : une chronique de la création artistique by Ana Fernandes

“…The audience is as much concrete as abstract instances, fundamental component of this work which is at the same time an aesthetic judgment and a chronicle. The art critic takes an acute look at the observed paintings where the painter « imitates » nature more in a personal position where this nature is recreated according to an internal model of the artist that the critic reports.…”
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Denying the Dichotomy: Word Images in The Waves by Bernadette McCarthy

“…I propose to examine these passages with a visual art critical lens and to consider them as one would a series of paintings.…”
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Paper Architecture: Monuments of Utopia by Alexander I. Khomyakov

“…The publication mainly deals with architectural concepts that interpret the anti-utopian moods of the society of the late twentieth century, the comments of the participants of the movement themselves and the evaluation of art critics. The author hypothesis of factorsled to numerous victories of Moscow architects on international conceptual competitions is offered…”
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« J’ai tout fait avec retard et à l’envers » : un parcours intellectuel avec Élisabeth Lebovici by Élisabeth Lebovici, Giorgio Fichera, Clémentine Girault, Clovis Maillet

“…Giorgio Fichera, Clémentine Girault and Clovis Maillet met Élisabeth Lebovici, who had attended Hubert Damisch's seminars before moving to New York and becoming an art critic and author. The discussion focused on the intellectual paths of the 1980s and the reasons for the non-encounter between feminist and post-structuralist theories.…”
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Ukrainian and European Baroque in the Context of “Sister Arts” Idea by Olga Shikirinskaya

“…The article deals with the “Sister Arts” tradition as the interrelationship of various art forms (poetry, fiction, painting, theatre, music etc.) relative to the Baroque period. “Sister Arts” criticism, based on E.G. Lessing essay “Laocoön…” uses the inter-art analogies to appreciate the importance of literature in the Arts, as well as to comprehend aspects of the modern approach to the synthesis of the arts. …”
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Introduzione | Introduction by Candeago, Arianna

“… Writer, painter, poet, art critic and more, John Ruskin was undoubtedly a key figure in nineteenth‑century European culture (and beyond), whose multifaceted nature has been able to catalyse the interests of generations of scholars, even from distant backgrounds. …”
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‘Art historians and their textual behaviour’. Review of: Sam Rose: Interpreting Art, London: UCL Press, 2022 by Branko Mitrović

“…Sam Rose’s book analyses techniques that art historians and art critics use when they write about artworks. These techniques concentrate on five ‘features’ of art-theoretical analysis: authors, contexts, reception, complexity and depth. …”
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Polychromes of Zofia Baudouin de Courtenay in churches of Gdańsk and Sopot by Hubert Bilewicz

“…These works are neo-Byzantine in character and were produced outside the official state patronage and outside the official range of art critics. By using the modernized formula for presenting sacral art, they display the dialogue between modernity and tradition.…”
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Una fortunata metafora di Cesare Brandi: le «chiese di cristallo» degli Armeni by Ruffilli, Marco

“…The aim of this brief essay is to explain Brandi’s metaphor of crystal in light of earlier theoretical considerations – such as the ones of Alois Riegl and Wilhelm Worringer – and in relation to additional examples of this expression found in Italian art critics of the first half the 20th century. …”
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Kazimir Malevich in Avant-Garde Discussions in 1928–1930 by Oksana Salata

“…Discussions between Kazimir Malevich and Mykhailo Boichuk became fundamental for an artistic discussion which continues among contemporary artists and art critics. The artist based his work on objectlessness, which became a method of interpreting art. …”
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Editions of Ukrainian studies in scientific library of Vasyl Shchavynskyi by Shapoval Andrii

“…The purpose of the article based on the analysis of archival sources, to reconstruct the Ukrainian studies component of the scientific library of the outstanding Ukrainian art critic, collector, bibliophile and philanthropist Vasyl Oleksandrovich Shchavynskyi (1868-1924). …”
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Art as Critique under Neoliberalism: Negativity Undoing Economic Naturalism by Alexander Gawronski

“…This is particularly observable online on social media where an artist’s whole life is simultaneously the subject and object of art. Criticality in art does not disappear but becomes ‘self-annulling’: it acts as a conduit questioning the commodity-identity of art while pointing to phenomena and affects outside the art world. …”
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Writing About Modernist Painting Outside Western Europe and North America by James Elkins

“…More often, they are dismissed in art critical and historical accounts as derivative in their attempt to emulate this centre. …”
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Vicissitudes do intelectual público: um estudo de caso sobre Mário Pedrosa (1944-1968) by Josnei Di Carlo

“…Concomitantly with his professionalization as an art critic, he became a public intellectual, because of political intervention in the disputes through the big press. …”
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EL METADISCURSO DESCRIPTIVO EN LOS RELATOS DE THÉOPHILE GAUTIER by Pedro Pardo Jiménez

“…A painter and art critic, Théophile Gautier createsa preeminently visual aesthetics that, in his literary oeuvre, renders description a truly overwhelming presence. …”
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IMITATION OF TEXTILE TECHNIQUES IN THE PRODUCTS OF ST. PETERSBURG CHINTZ TEXTILE MILLS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH— EARLY 20TH CENTURY by Romanov Dmitry V.

“…Petersburg print ornaments occupy an important place in the context of Russian and European history of applied art. Today, many an art critic engage in printed textile studies, which makes this work relevant and modern. …”
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Tra odierno e primordiale by Ugo Fracassa

“… Emilio Villa (1914-2003) was a poet, translator and art critic. He placed the theme of Origins at the center of his work, always considering it in relation with the concept of Èskhaton (the End of Times) and often observing it as an etymologist. …”
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How blue is read: language and sensation in literature and philosophy by Gaskill, N

“…Philosophers and art critics have long argued that the language of color misses or even mars the ineffable sensation of color. …”