Subject: Re: Daumier-Smith and Empathy
From: christopher robin (majdumbo@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 19:14:12 GMT
Thanks Val`rie and Tim for the welcome.
> I suspect that a large part of it is in how the "critic"
> (professional or amateur; high-school level, college level, or
> postgraduate; serious or casual) expresses the ideas and arguments in
> the criticism. As many people (including Franny herself) have said,
> it doesn't take a whole lot to be a "tearer-downer," and all too
> often that's what "critics" fall into.
Agree with that 100% plus a bit more. Good point about critics turn-
ing into tearer-downers, quite unfortunately my English teacher this year
was that kind of critic.
> I think that where the high-schoolers fall into a trap is where they
> offer criticism without much to back it up, whereas the more seasoned
> critic has learned to include more than "it's good|bad|indifferent
> because I say so, and if you won't listen to me you are discriminating
> against me because of my age or my grade level."
Absolutely, that was one of the main problems in my class this year, I
heard something like 10 suggestions with real substance to back them up.
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