"In the last three or four decades, critics have begun to avoid judgments altogether, preferring to describe or evoke the art rather than say what they think of it. In 2002, a survey conducted by the Columbia University National Arts Journalism Program found that judging art is the least popular goal among American art critics, and simply describing art is the most popular: it is an amazing reversal, as astonishing as if physicists had declared they would no longer try to understand the universe, but just appreciate it."
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James Elkins, What Happened to Art Criticism? (2004)

as if physicists had declared they would no longer try to understand the universe, but just appreciate it.

Well…..

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  1. Date Posted Icon 22nd February 2011
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    as if physicists had declared they would no longer try to understand the universe, but just appreciate it. Well…..
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