Co Może Krytyka

• Authors: Adjedj Marie

Title variants

EN

What Criticism Can Achieve

FR

Ce Que Peut La Critique

• Languages of publication: PL EN FR

Abstracts

EN

‘A1B2S19E5N14T20E5E5 I9N14F6O15R18M13A1T20I9O15N14 A1N14D4 O15R18 C3R18I9T20I9C3I9S19M13’ is a text written by the American art critic Lucy R. Lippard, at the invitation of Kynaston McShine, for publication in the catalogue of the exhibition Information which he organised at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from the 2nd of July 1970 to the 20th of September 1970. This highly experimental text is exemplary of Lucy R. Lippard’s approach. As of 1967, in her article ‘Change and Criticism: Consistency and Small Minds’ (Art International, nov. 1967), she called for an aggiornamento of art criticism. This implied realigning the theoretical tools with the broad changes taking place in artistic creation, whilst dehierarchising the relations between art critics, artists and the audience. Thus in 1968, as she undertook rigorous methodological research about her own position as a subject, Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler proposed considering emerging artworks as part of the aesthetic regime of the ‘dematerialization of art’. Lucy R. Lippard’s approach, as ‘A1B2S19E5N14T20E5E5 I9N14F6O15R18M13A1T20I9O15N14 A1N14D4 O15R18 C3R18I9T20I9C3I9S19M13’, can attest, is not limited to considerations about her practice of art criticism. Rather, it is inextricably linked to the democratic demands of society as a whole. As such, it echoes the present injunction of ethical governance addressed to the institutions of the art world.

FR

« A1B2S19E5N14T20E5E5 I9N14F6O15R18M13A1T20I9O15N14 A1N14D4 O15R18 C3R18I9T20I9C3I9S19M13 » est un texte écrit par la critique d’art américaine Lucy R. Lippard, sur invitation de Kynaston McShine, pour publication dans le catalogue de l’exposition Information qu’il a organisée au Museum of Modern Art de New York du 2 juillet au 20 septembre 1970. Ce texte, fortement expérimental, est exemplaire de la démarche dans laquelle Lucy R. Lippard s’est engagée depuis plusieurs années. Dès 1967, dans son article « Change and Criticism : Consistency and Small Minds » (Art International, nov. 1967), elle appelle à un aggiornamento de la critique d’art. Il s’agit d’une part d’actualiser les outils théoriques au regard des bouleversements que connaît la création artistique, et d’autre part de niveler les hiérarchies entre le critique, l’artiste et le public. En 1968, elle propose ainsi avec John Chandler de lire les œuvres émergentes à l’aune d’un régime esthétique de « dématérialisation de l’art », tout en menant une recherche méthodologique rigoureuse sur la construction de sa position de sujet. La démarche de Lucy R. Lippard, comme en témoigne « A1B2S19E5N14T20E5E5 I9N14F6O15R18M13A1T20I9O15N14 A1N14D4 O15R18 C3R18I9T20I9C3I9S19M13 », ne se limite aucunement à une réflexion sur les conditions de sa pratique critique. Elle est inextricablement liée à des revendications démocratiques qui s’étendent à l’échelle de la société ; et résonne avec l’injonction actuelle d’une gouvernance éthique faite aux institutions du monde de l’art.

Keywords

PL

Lucy R. Lippard; Kynaston McShine; Information; sztuka konceptualna; krytyka sztuki; dematerializacja sztuki; dehierarchizacja

EN

Lucy R. Lippard; Kynaston McShine; Information; conceptual art; art criticism; dematerialization of art; dehierarchisation

• Publisher: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku
• Journal: Sztuka i Dokumentacja
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 21
• Pages: 196-249

Contributors

author

Adjedj Marie

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