art-criticism

The story, in short, is excellent, and although I agree with Joshi that Lovecraft doesn't quite carry off Thurber's "hard-boiled" voice, I think it's at most a minor flaw in a nearly perfected collage of horror, history, allusion, art-criticism, and black, bleak humor.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

Great advances have been made during this reign in English art and art-criticism, and more particularly in the extension of real artistic education to classes of the community who could hardly attain it before, though it was perhaps more essential to them than to the wealthy and leisurely who had previously monopolised it.

Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling

We do not have to warn the reader against over-indulgence in biography or art-criticism, any more than we have to put away the vichy bottle when a bibulous friend appears, or forbid the children to eat too many shredded-wheat biscuits.

A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick

I use the word _literary_ as it has often been used by others in characterizing the popular art-criticism of the time -- and in England much of the professional criticism also -- to denote

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

Meanwhile acquaintance with Carlyle had combined with experience to convince him of the comparative ineffectualness of mere art-criticism as a social and religious force.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

French art-criticism to be almost purely technical.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

Doubtless that is what art-criticism should be; but perhaps it is wrong to despise utterly those who achieve something less.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

Now, art-criticism and æsthetics are two things, though at the present moment the former is profoundly influenced by the latter.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

She had little classes in art-criticism for the young ladies in town, explaining to them with sweet lucidity why the Botticellis and Rembrandts and Dürers were better than the chromos which still hung on the walls of the old library, now cold and deserted except for church suppers and sociables.

Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

Voltaire, Diderot is one of the most prolific writers of the eighteenth century, producing in turn romances, philosophical treatises tending toward atheism, essays in art-criticism, dramas.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913