Historia y crítica del arte. Intento de desnaturalizar sus conversiones recientes

Abstract

The history of art is the history of that which can be photographed, André Malraux (1951) wrote. There has been a widespread use of photography and film as media for art history and criticism since the mid-twentieth century. It invites us to consider how their discursive forms have been adapting to and, above all, drawn on the expressive potential of essentially (audio) visual medium. And how this has happened to the expense of traditional written form to which art history and criticism have been mainly associated since their origin in the works by Pliny the Elder, Giorgio Vasari and Denis Diderot.