As the 1980s drew to a close, literary scholar George Steiner proposed a thought-experiment that, to many, sounded more like a dystopia: “Imagine a society in which all talk about the art, music, and literature is prohibited.” (Steiner 1991: 4) In this “counter-Platonic republic” of authors and artists, from which reviewers and critics had been … Continue reading Art Criticism Between Power and Change