Art Criticism

Art Criticism

male
art movement, Aesthetics, visual arts, patron, criticism, Art critic
Art criticism is the written discussion or evaluation of visual art. Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory...
Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

male, deceased (1797)
Whig MP, Politics of Bristol, Member of the Parliament of Great Britain, whig, American, classical liberalism…Aesthetics
Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many...
Arthur Danto

Arthur Danto

male, 85 years old
art criticism, Magazine founder, Postmodern artist, contemporary art, ann arbor, Contemporary sculptor…Aesthetics, American Society for Aesthetics
Arthur Coleman Danto (b. 1924) is an American art critic, professor and philosopher. Arthur C. Danto was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1924, and...
Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl

female, deceased (2003)
Nazi, triumph des willens, NUBA, Triumph of the Will, third reich, nuremberg…Aesthetics
Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl was a German film director, dancer and actress, and widely noted for her aesthetics and advances in film...
Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin

male, deceased (1975)
Victim of Soviet repressions, Aesthetics, Scholar, structuralist, Philologist, aesthetic
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who wrote influential works of literary and...
Nelson Goodman

Nelson Goodman

male, deceased (1998)
Philosophy academic, Philosophy Teacher, Non-fiction writer, University of Pennsylvania faculty, Harvard University faculty, Harvard University alumni…Aesthetics
Henry Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906, Somerville, Massachusetts - 25 November 1998, Needham, Massachusetts) was an American philosopher, known for...
Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell

male, 83 years old
Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, Stanley Louis Cavell, Aesthetics, American, Wittgensteinian philosopher, philosopher
Stanley Louis Cavell (born September 1, 1926) is an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the...
Benedetto Croce

Benedetto Croce

male, deceased (1952)
from the Province of L'Aquila, Aesthetics, philosopher, Idealist, Member of the Italian Liberal Party, liberal
Benedetto Croce (February 25, 1866 - November 20, 1952) was an Italian critic, idealist philosopher, and politician. He wrote on numerous topics,...
Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Burke

male, deceased (1993)
Rhetoric theorist, American, philosopher, Literary critic, philosophy, Rhetorician…Aesthetics
Kenneth Burke (May 5 1897-November 19 1993) was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and...
John Hospers

John Hospers

male, 91 years old
American, Libertarian theorist, initiation, philosopher, Member of the Libertarian Party, non-aggression principle…Introductory Readings in Aesthetics, Aesthetics
John Hospers (born 9 June 1918) is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Hospers earned advanced degrees from...