Dan Fox/Confusing Literary with Visual Critics

Vogel argued that film criticism was suffering because too many critics were from a literary rather than visual arts background ‘with the visual serving as illustration of an underlying literary thesis’5. Today, it’s tangentially related to the referencing problem; criticism – in part, taking its lead from curating – that privileges artistic intent, back-story or the assessment of referential sources over describing what the thing itself did or looked or sounded like.

Dan Fox, 13 Confusions, Frieze Issue 136, http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/13-confusions/