{"product_id":"9781911593102","title":"Better Criticism: Ten Commandments for a dying Art","description":"\u003cp\u003ePaid critics are an endangered species, and good criticism is a dying art. Editors are culling many, and frequently all, of their best critics. In the academic world, balanced criticism is being driven out, in favour of weird and wacky, hard-left dogma. Especially on the internet but also in newspapers and magazines, there’s more \u003cem\u003ebad\u003c\/em\u003e criticism than ever before – needlessly rude, ill-judged, poorly expressed or bigoted, and sometimes all four.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are “reviews” that are not reviews at all, but paid-for marketing tools or uncritical hagiography by friends and relations of the artist (and sometimes by the artist himself). Corruption in the field of reviewing is rife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBad is driving out good. Even in such havens of free speech as Western Europe and America, the story of criticism over the last few years has been a shocking tale of sackings, corruption, suicides, murders and editorial stupidity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBetter Criticism \u003c\/em\u003eshows how and why Criticism has become the most undervalued of all the arts, and presents Ten Commandments which should help anyone to become a better critic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arena Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033146769648,"sku":"9781911593102","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781911593102_p0.jpg?v=1763630744","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781911593102","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}