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Issue 70: Critics , Issue 70: Selling art

  • Critics, Selling art

    22 Mar 2004

    What exactly is the role of the critic? In a world where objective absolutes are impossible, Sue Robertson suggests we should re-evaluate our expectations of critical appraisal.
    When Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot agree to insult each other, exchanging epithets such as moron, vermin and sewer-rat, the final and most extreme term of abuse is ?Critic!? Interestingly this did not appear in the original French version and was presumably inserted after reviewers? initial... more