“A Short History of Modernist Painting,” Mark Tansey, 1982
A couple of interesting reviews of Rita Felski’s new book, The Limits of Critique (Chicago, 2015) have appeared (by Davide Panagia and Matthew Mullins), but neither struck at quite what made the book compelling and thought-provoking for me. In my conversations with friends and colleagues, on Twitter and at MLA, I’ve found the book to be quite controversial. I think this is so largely because, from descriptions of the book, one might imagine it to be a reactionary, anti-political retreat into aesthetic appreciation.
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