June 02, 2007
French author and literary critic Maurice Blanchot in his 1963 essay, "What is the Purpose of Criticism?" says:
"Criticism is no longer an external judgement placing the literary work in a position of value and bestowing its opinion, after the fact, on this value. It has come to be inseparable from the internal working of the text, belonging to the movement when it becomes what it is. Criticism is the search for and experience of this possibility".
So we no longer have the privileging painting over criticism or vice versa. Criticism becomes an essential moment in the work of art.
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