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This is a sortable list of Australian art critics who wrote for newspapers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a period in which such periodicals carried the majority of current, contemporaneous art criticism, before most such papers ceased art reviews in the 21st century.

Hamilton writes to distinguish this genre:

...criticism that appears in newspapers is written for a general audience, and the real substance of newspaper art criticism can best be summed up as providing an antidote for the ‘vernacular glance’. This term, coined by art historian Brian O’Doherty in 1974, refers to the modern phenomenon of viewing an exhibition casually, with eyes darting indiscriminately from object to object in an ineffectual effort to take in the entire exhibition at once. The work of the critic is effectively to map an exhibition for an audience, and thereby transform the vernacular glance into an informed glance that is capable of discerning either meaning or emptiness in the work on show.

Barker and Green, noting the number of art critics writing for newspapers in the 1970s, consider that 'this writing was essentially ephemeral, based on the assessment of the wide spectrum of exclusively local, art exhibitions. It was essentially a form of reportage. In 2012 Heather Osborne noticed a general devaluing and disparagement of the newspaper critic and warned that:

… the progressively weakened position of newspaper art criticism and the threat of it disappearing altogether from mass market newspapers could have far-reaching repercussions a nodal rupture in the network of relationships between the art world and the wider public. The complex ecology of the art world needs this link with the wider public. It needs a healthy balance between critical writing in art journals and newspapers.

Bibliography

• Anderson, Peter (2001), "A question of critical spin : The state of art criticism in Australia", Eyeline (46): 54–55, ISSN 0818-8734
• Chanin, Eileen (2006), Art Criticism in Australia 1866 - 1973, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, retrieved 28 November 2024
• Haese, Richard (1988). Rebels and precursors : the revolutionary years of Australian art. Penguin. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
• James, Rodney Bevan (2023). Letters to a critic : Alan McCulloch's world of art. The Miegunyah Press. ISBN 978-0-522-87987-2.
• Kerr, Joan (1992). The dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553290-6.
• Marsh, Anne (2021). Doing Feminism : Women's Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-0-522-87759-5.
• McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; McCulloch Childs, Emily (2006). The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art (4th ed.). Fitzroy: AUS Art Editions; Miegunyah Press. p. ix. ISBN 0-522-85317-X. OCLC 80568976.
• Osborne, Margot; University of Adelaide. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (2011), Progressives and provincialism : the role of art criticism in advocacy of modern art in Adelaide from 1940 to 1980, retrieved 28 November 2024

References

1. Bruce, Candice; University of Sydney. Department of English (1997), Art and Australia Felix : art criticism, taste and nostalgia in mid-nineteenth century Victoria, retrieved 28 November 2024
2. McAuliffe, Chris (1986), Art criticism in Australia 1970-1984, retrieved 28 November 2024
3. Forde, Rosemary (2009), Sympton or cure? : indendent art magazines in Melbourne 1988-2006 and the crisis of criticism, University of Melbourne, retrieved 28 November 2024
4. ^ Hamilton, Judy (2013). "Influencing the Modern in Brisbane: Gertrude Langer and the Role of Newspaper Art Criticism". Queensland Review (20): 206. doi:10.1017/qre.2013.21 – via Cambridge Journals.
5. O’Doherty, Brian (1973). "Rauschenberg and the vernacular glance". Art in America. 61 (5): 82–87.
6. Green, Charles; Barker, Heather (June 2011). "No place like home: Australian art history and contemporary art at the start of the 1970s". Journal of Art Historiography (3) – via ResearchGate.
7. Osborne, Margot (June 2012). "Who would be an art critic?". Art Monthly Australia (250): 76–78.
8. Freiberg, Freda (7 May 1997). "Koons takes the cake for art ads". The Age. pp. C7.
9. Genocchio, Benjamin; Genocchio, Benjamin; Australia Council (2002), The art of persuasion : Australian art criticism 1950-2001, Craftsman House Fine Art Publishing, ISBN 978-1-877004-11-7
10. ^ Hughes, Robert (26 January 1963). "Dog eats dog". Nation Review: 19.
11. ^ Westbrook, Eric; Australian National Publicity Association.; Australian National Travel Association. (1 September 1965), "Criticism without malice", Walkabout, Rex Nan Kivell Collection, 31 (9), Melbourne: Australian National Travel Association: 39–40, ISSN 0043-0064, retrieved 28 November 2024 – via Trove
12. "Loureiro, Marie Therese (?–1907)". Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 29 November 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
13. McCaughey, Patrick (September–October 1967). "The art critic". Quadrant: 74–79.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
14. Smith, Bernard (1988). The critic as advocate: selected essays 1948-88. Melbourne: Oxford University Press (published 1989). ISBN 978-0-19-553029-2.
15. Cunneen, Chris. "Agnes Theodora (Dora) (1899–1987)". People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 29 November 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links

• Michael Snape – ‘Art Criticism: The Silenced Witness’

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