art criticism summary
Learn about the origins of art criticism and some prominent art critics
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Milton Babbitt Summary
Milton Babbitt was an American composer and theorist known as a leading proponent of total serialism—i.e., musical composition based on prior arrangements not only of all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale (as in 12-tone music) but also of dynamics, duration, timbre (tone colour), and register.
Tom Stoppard Summary
Tom Stoppard was a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose work is marked by verbal brilliance, ingenious action, and structural dexterity. Stoppard’s father worked in Singapore in the late 1930s. After the Japanese invasion, his father stayed on and was killed, but Stoppard’s mother
David Mamet Summary
David Mamet is an American playwright, director, and screenwriter noted for his often desperate working-class characters and for his distinctive, colloquial, and frequently profane dialogue. Mamet began writing plays while attending Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont (B.A. 1969). Returning to
Wyndham Lewis Summary
Wyndham Lewis was an English artist and writer who founded the Vorticist movement, which sought to relate art and literature to the industrial process. About 1893 Lewis moved to London with his mother after his parents separated. At age 16 he won a scholarship to London’s Slade School of Fine Art,