The art critic as art historian and sociologist
The Lithuanian experience
In the current “crisis of criticism”, the art critic has become obsolete. The type of criticism offered “does not interest those artists who have mastered the most novel means of expression and who themselves offer interpretations of their works. It is not needed by the lovers of art, since it is uninformative and despotic, requiring from its reader total and unconditional obedience, while at the same time limiting the reader’s horizon to one narrow group of artistic phenomena. It does not provide one with the criteria that would enable one to form an autonomous judgement concerning the value, context, and so on, of the art that it presents.”
