This dialogue began with an encounter between two approaches to criticism. After reading Tomoki Akimaru’s essay What Is Art? Toward an Art Criticism for an Eco-Social World, Dorian Vale wrote to Akimaru with a question concerning the limits of interpretation and its relation to Post-Interpretive Criticism. What began as a correspondence around that distinction soon opened onto a larger problem: what responsibility does criticism assume once it enters the encounter between a viewer and a work?
Their exchange moved through interpretation and witness, exhibition mediation, wall texts and curatorial framing, the freedom of the viewer, and the peculiar afterlife of critical languagehow an interpretation, once made public, ceases to belong entirely to the critic and becomes part of the conditions through which later viewers encounter the work.
The correspondence was subsequently developed into a public dialogue and originally published by Art Criticism+ in Japan with the consent of both participants. Museum of One preserves the exchange here as part of the continuing record of Post-Interpretive Criticism in dialogue with other approaches to contemporary art criticism.
On Post-Interpretive Criticism: A Dialogue between Dorian Vale and Tomoki Akimaru - 美術評論＋
Introduction The following dialogue began when Dorian V
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ポスト・インタープリティヴ批評を巡って――ドリアン・ヴェイルと秋丸知貴の対話 - 美術評論＋
はじめに 以下の対話は、カナダを拠点とする独立系の芸術研究・出版プロジェクト「Museum of One」の主
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