…expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain
George Steiner
Art critic and writer Paul Shepheard was in residence at Deveron Projects in spring 2007, to write on his book, 'How to Like Everything?'.
Criticism is traditionally based on a set of value judgements, whether this is subjective, or set in current trends or established 'rules'. However, this could be described as something of a negative method of criticism – defining positive traits through negation. In our current age of simultaneity and what some people refer to as the death of history, what would a new critical model look like? Is it possible to suggest a paradigm shift in a field that is largely unchanged since its inception? Can we go beyond the limiting and perhaps outdated values that consider the critic to be the dialectic of genius?
Conversation with Paul Shepheard
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Paul Shepheard's website
