What Crisis? Some Promising Futures for Art Criticism

Jeremy Traum

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Or maybe with all of these developments, we're entering a new phase of postmodernism, of what art historian Rosalind Krauss termed "paraliterature" to describe writing that blurs the distinction between literature and criticism. Even better, what if art writing, which has weathered its own "crisis" and is exhibiting the rumblings of reinvention, serves as a harbinger for art itself? After all, when the market and everyone else has given up on you, that's often when things get interesting.