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Slings and Arrows (not the TV variety!)

December 11, 2014 / Michelle Kamhi / Book reviews / No Comments

As might be expected, my critics have begun to weigh in, the first being Professor Paul Duncum of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In his one-star “review” on the Amazon.com page for Who Says That’s Art? he dismisses my ideas as “grounded in Kantian aesthetics as reworked by right wing ideologue Ann Rand.”

Anyone who has bothered to read her writing on aesthetics (much less my work about it) knows that no one would be more stunned by the alleged Kantian connection than “Ann Rand” herself!

I don’t mind slings and arrows—I only wish that the level of scholarship were a bit higher, and that the names could at least be spelled right.

Professor Duncum is shocked that my definition of (fine) art excludes photography and “abstract” work—though he has never bothered to consider my reasons for doing so. In truth, as I note in Who Says That’s Art?, he is among the all-too-many these days who, while charged with the training future of art teachers, are more concerned with consumer goods, popular culture, and critiques of capitalism than with “art” of any kind.

Who Says That’s Art? A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts.

November 8, 2014 / Michelle Kamhi / News / 6 Comments

Greetings!

In this first blog post, I’m pleased to trumpet the release next week of the book I’ve been working on for more than a decade: Who Says That’s Art? A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts.

As emphasized in the press release announcing publication, the book throws down the gauntlet to the contemporary art establishment. I look forward to a lively debate regarding the challenge I’ve posed.

I will use this space to refine and expand upon the argument presented in Who Says That’s Art?, as well as to offer further observations on the world of art, past and present.

I invite readers to comment, pro or con, provided they do so civilly—under their real name, unless there’s a compelling reason not to do so.

I look forward to hearing from you!

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