Art theory and criticsm

El presente trabajo aspira a ser una contribución a la filosofía de la crítica. En él se discute el  “programa descriptivista" de Jean-Marie Schaeffer y el "programa evaluacionista” de Noël Carroll. Su propósito es integrar estas dos teorías acerca de la crítica de arte, que no ve como antagónicas, sino como complementarias entre sí. Para ello  distingue tres tipos de juicios relativos al arte: los juicios estéticos, los juicios teleológicos y los juicios normativos de la crítica. Estos últimos involucrarían tres operaciones que son interdependientes: la apreciación subjetiva, la descripción objetual y la evaluación razonada, conjugando así aspectos descriptivos y evaluativos.

Based on a paper delivered in November 2016 at the Musée du Louvre (Publier sur l’art, l’architecture et la ville : La Font de Saint-Yenne [1688-1771] et l’ambition d’une oeuvre), this article argues that La Font de Saint-Yenne was principally a critic of architecture and town planning, despite his reputation as a critic of painting. The article also brings several new works, all on architecture, into his known oeuvre, and analyzes them for what they can tell us about La Font's later years.
This PDF also includes an important table that was accidentally omitted from the final publication.

This article wants to highlights the role that spectators can have with their feedback in redefining new curatorial pratices. The case study is 27metricubi a public art project made by the italian collective AAA, where the audience was engaged using the procedure Mazzaro-Scarin.
The procedure developed by the artist Alessio Mazzaro with the psychologist Andrea Scarin, is an evaluation and engagment stategy composed by two assessment questionnaire (one for audience and one for artists) and a public meeting. It aims to investigate the effectiveness of new curatorial practices, to understand how the spectators perceived them and to improve them. The procedure is even a trigger to activate the spectators, a way to bring them to express what they think about the art works. Collettivo AAA is collective that build new spaces to experience Art outside market and critic rules. 27metricubi is a steel cube of 3m side assembled in a public space for 2 days and then disassambled and bring to a different city. Every day it opens for 4 hours and during this period it hosts 12 artists. The artists can partecipate in the project through an open call, the first 24 artists that applied, exhibit.