ABSTRACT
The topic of this book is art criticism, by which I mean criticism of any work within a certain group of artforms, including: literature, drama, dance, music, the graphic arts (encompassing photography), sculpture, architecture, and the movingimage arts (film, video, and computer generated visuals). This collection of artforms appears to have begun emerging as an established set around the eighteenth century, and it has been called alternatively the Modern System of the Arts or the Beaux Arts or the Fine Arts (or, more simply, the Arts with a capital A).
