Print Criticism

Print criticism (1989)

An interesting article by Christopher Allen on print criticism - the art critic responding to printmaking in a different way to how the critic may respond to criticism of other forms.

What distinguishes print criticism from criticism in general? I suppose it’s essentially the fact that you have to take account of the different or the specific qualities of the medium or rather many different media because, as we know, and [as] we’ve seen today too, there are many different techniques and media involved in printing, and combinations, re–uses; re–readings of those techniques today...