Essays

Follow me as I learn to write about art and art history. I hope to focus on 19th century European art this summer followed by modern art in the fall. New essays will appear in the late summer through the early winter.

Elizabeth Upshur Elizabeth Upshur

The Culture Industry

A critical response to Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception.

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Specific Objects

A critical response to Donald Judd’s essay, Specific Objects.

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