BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 30 -- Boise State University issued the following news release:
Associate Professor Craig Peariso from the Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies published his new book "Art Criticism and the Appeal to Democracy" with Routledge in 2026.
While engaging with the interconnected concepts of communication and democracy in postwar American and European art criticism, this book provides a historical assessment of how these two related trends pertain to modern and contemporary art theory and practice.
Looking at both the history of artistic and curatorial efforts to "empower" viewers by facilitating different forms of audience participation, and the critical attempts to evaluate the success or failure of these efforts, ...