Why Art Criticism? A Reader

Beate Söntgen; Julia Voss

Why Art Criticism? A Reader

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Why Art Criticism? A Reader. / Söntgen, Beate (Editor); Voss, Julia (Editor).
Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022. 464 p.

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Harvard

Söntgen, B & Voss, J (eds) 2022, Why Art Criticism? A Reader. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin.

APA

Söntgen, B., & Voss, J. (Eds.) (2022). Why Art Criticism? A Reader. Hatje Cantz Verlag.

Vancouver

Söntgen B, (ed.), Voss J, (ed.). Why Art Criticism? A Reader. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022. 464 p.

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