Why Art Criticism? A Reader AGWA PUBLICATION Creating a subtle mix between

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Donegan’s painting Walka Wiru Ngura Wiru transports us across the vast desert country surrounding the Tomkinson Ranges near the artist’s home community of Kalka

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Why Art Criticism? A Reader AGWA PUBLICATION Creating a subtle mix betweenHow is art criticism to be understood within an expanding artistic field? A look at its history and its manifestations within globalized conditions shows the variety of the genre, of the criteria and of the styles of writing. This reader is an attempt to bring a diverse range of art critical voices and perspectives into conversation with each other, with texts from the 18th century to the present. Texts by: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Denis Diderot,