Response to Grant Kester’s “The Device Laid Bare”
E. C. Feiss
In response to Grant Kester’s “The Device Laid Bare: On Some Limitations in Current Art Criticism,” 1 I have some concerns about the characterization of my work, but more importantly, it seems there is perhaps another “device” to be laid bare here, at the risk of being stale. As Anselm Frank writes in issue #8 of this journal, “critique, itself a modern practice, has entered into the often lamented crisis we currently face, foregrounding its complicities in upholding the power of the…
