How Long to Read Critical Shift

How Long Does it Take to Read Critical Shift?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Critical Shift by Karen L. Georgi

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known texts, finding certain key discrepancies between their words and our historiography that point to unrecognized narrative desires. The book also studies ruptures and revolutionary breaks between “old” and “new” art, as well as the issue of the morality of “true” art. Georgi asserts that these concepts and their sometimes loaded expression were part of larger rhetorical structures that gainsay the uses to which the key terms have been put in modern historiography. It has been more than fifty years since a book has been devoted to analyzing the careers of these three critics, and never before has their role in the historiography and periodization of American art been analyzed. The conclusions drawn from this close rereading of well-known texts challenge the fundamental nature of “historical context” in American art history.

How long is Critical Shift?

Critical Shift by Karen L. Georgi is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Critical Shift Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Critical Shift aloud.

What Reading Level is Critical Shift?

Critical Shift is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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