Round Table: The Present Conditions of Art Criticism

Book covers the round-table discussions hosted by October Magazine in New York in 2001. These events featured such eminent critics, theorists and art historians as George Baker, Rosalind Krauss, Benjamin Buchloh, David Joselit, James Meyer, Hal Foster, Helen Molesworth, with Andrea Fraser, Robert Storr and John Miller numbering among the participating artists and curators. The discussions raised key questions of art criticism. Book III concerns “parafiction” as a means of influencing human perception through the interplay of fact and fiction. In it, American art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty explains how semi-fictional narratives help us orient ourselves in the world of post-truth.