Resumen de "The art historian among artists": Kunstkritik und kunstgeschichte bei Meyer Schapiro
This essay discusses Meyer Schapiro's conceptions of art criticism and art history on the basis of mainly unpublished texts. Schapiro establishes analogous criteria for art criticism and for art history in demanding that they adhere to scholary standards such as observation, confirmable evaluation and, in the case of art criticism, falsification and, in the case of art history, critical relevance. The claim of validity alone generates subtle distinctions. In this context Schapiro grants art criticism great potential. He thus sees in the art critic's hightened subjectivity the basis for a political position that enables self-reflection and social impact. This essay contends that by arguing in this fashion, Schapiro establishes art criticism as a critical and discursive practice with its own claim to knowledge.
