Arts criticism

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Arts criticism is the process of describing, analyzing, interpreting, and judging works of art.[http://www.brigantine.atlnet.org/GigapaletteGALLERY/websites/ARTiculationFinal/MainPages/A-DVocabulary.htm Art Vocabulary] – accessed 10 July 2008 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611163122/http://www.brigantine.atlnet.org/GigapaletteGALLERY/websites/ARTiculationFinal/MainPages/A-DVocabulary.htm |date=June 11, 2008 }} The disciplines of arts criticism can be defined by the object being considered rather than the methodology (through analysis of its philosophy): buildings (architecture criticism), paintings (visual art criticism), performances (dance criticism, theatre criticism), music (music journalism), visual media (film criticism, television criticism), or literary texts (literary criticism).{{cite journal | url=http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3488,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx | title=Science and the Theft of Humanity | author=Geoffrey Harpham | journal=American Scientist | publisher=Sigma Xi | date=August 2006 | access-date=2008-07-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611200207/http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3488,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx | archive-date=2011-06-11 | url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.temple.edu/jaac/ |title=Home: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism |work=The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism |publisher=American Society for Aesthetics / Temple University |access-date=2008-07-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506224924/http://www.temple.edu/JAAC/ |archive-date=2008-05-06 }}

Criticism of the arts can be broadly divided into two types. There is academic criticism such as that found in scholarly works and specialist journals, then there is criticism of a more journalistic nature (often called 'a review') which is seen by a wider public through newspapers, television and radio. The academic criticism will be of a more vigorous and analytical nature than the journalistic, the journalistic may even focus on entertaining the reader at the expense of detail about the art under discussion.{{cn|date=February 2024}}