Underskog

The purpose of this conference is to investigate critical crossings between the two domains: art criticism and art history. The relation between art critical and art historical praxis is a contested area. Some maintain that the two fields are separate and delimited disciplines. The starting point for this conference, however, is that art criticism and art history are closely related. Reception theories and histories focus on the ‘life’ of the work of art, on the artwork’s interaction with the viewer – on the individual, as well as on a historical basis. Often, art criticism performs the first steps in the process of inscribing an art project into the histories of art.