Art & Antiques

The Critic and the Artist

HE RELATIONSHIP between art-making and art writing has always been a fraught one, perhaps especially in the late 19th and 20th centuries. With the rise of modernism and the avant-garde, art writing vastly increased in volume, if for no other reason than that there was so much

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