Voss, Julia
Walter Grasskamp. Ein Engel verschwindet: Künstlerportraits aus vierzig Jahren
This volume commemorates the awarding of the AICA Prize for a Distinguished Contribution to Art Criticism to Walter Grasskamp.
Under the poetic and mysterious title The Angel Vanishes, Grasskamp has collected nineteen monographic portraits of artists – written between 1979 and 2019 – which appear here in chronological order. The anthology focuses on the work of artists with whom he has been associated over a longer period of time and has written about on several occasions, including Hans Haacke, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter. In addition to these are artists such as Markus Raetz, Aldo Walker, Axel Kasseböhmer, and Ben Willikens, who have drawn attention to themselves with their idiosyncratic works. This is followed by Grasskamp’s detailed reflections on the ‘art market hangover’, in which he discusses the changing role of art criticism.
Art Criticism in Times of Populism and Nationalism: Proceedings of the 52nd International AICA Congress, Cologne/Berlin 1–7 October 2019
This publication documents the 52nd International Congress of the Art Critics Association (AICA), which met in 2019 in Cologne and Berlin to discuss the topic of Art Criticism in Times of Populism and Nationalism. More than forty speakers and moderators provided a definition of populism, addressed issues of discrimination, censorship in many countries, and the appropriation of artistic strategies in ‘right-wing’ language use. The autonomy and responsibility of art and art criticism were also thematised. The discussions reproduced here in text form reveal the full complexity of the topic.
The documentation is published in two separate German and English volumes.
Kunstkritik in Zeiten von Populismen und Nationalismen: Akten des 52. internationalen AICA Kongresses, Köln/Berlin 1. bis 7. Oktober 2019
This publication documents the 52nd International Congress of the Art Critics Association (AICA), which met in 2019 in Cologne and Berlin to discuss the topic of Art Criticism in Times of Populism and Nationalism. More than forty speakers and moderators provided a definition of populism, addressed issues of discrimination, censorship in many countries, and the appropriation of artistic strategies in ‘right-wing’ language use. The autonomy and responsibility of art and art criticism were also thematised. The discussions reproduced here in text form reveal the full complexity of the topic.
The documentation is published in two separate German and English volumes.
