Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2018
Titel der Quelle:
תיאוריה וביקורת; במה ישראלית
Angaben zur Quelle:
50 (תשעח) 75-88
Keywords:
Chinski, Sara,
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Teʼoryah u-viḳoret (Yerushalayim, Israel)
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Art, Israeli 20th century
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Art criticism
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Art criticism Political aspects
Abstract:
This essay goes back to the three articles Sarah Chinski published in Theory and Criticism between 1993 and 2002, in which she offered a sharply critical analysis of the Israeli art discourse. These articles were part of the journal's general agenda in its formative years: to challenge the ideological biases at the heart of the research in the humanities and social sciences in Israel. But her articles went beyond that, questioning the critical stance itself - that of artists, curators, and academics - as yet another stage in the process of colonial Westernization aspired to by the Israeli subject. The essay thus demonstrates the anti-disciplinarian dimension of Chinski's writings, which were forged before the fixation of critical concepts and moves. But what happens when criticism itself becomes a discipline and is incorporated into regular academic activity? When Chinski's articles are taught in the institutions whose logic she questioned and within a disciplinary academic framework which she so vehemently resisted? Showing how the anti-disciplinarian dimension of Chinski's project has faded away, this essay asks what changes in the political and artistic framework of analysis should be made in order to revive it.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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