12 Art Criticism Books for Christmas: From Chus Martínez to Hal Foster

A roundup of 12 art criticism books published in 2020, recommended as Christmas gifts. The selection includes works by Chus Martínez (Corona Tales, a collection of Instagram posts during lockdown), Cesare de Seta (Sulle strade delle lettere e delle arti, a collection of reviews spanning 40 years), Alberto Zanchetta (Cézanniana, on the critical fortune of Cézanne), Marco Senaldi (Van Gogh a Hollywood, updated edition on artist biopics), Marco Carminati (La galleria dei ritratti, portraits of artists, scholars, dealers, collectors, and forgers), Jerry Saltz (Come diventare un artista, a guide with 63 tips), Nicolas Bourriaud (Inclusioni. Estetica del capitalocene, on aesthetics in the Capitalocene), Luca Nannipieri (A cosa serve la storia dell'arte, on the role of the art critic), Georges Didi-Huberman (L'invenzione dell'isteria, reprint of his 1981 thesis on hysteria and photography at Salpêtrière), Philippe Daverio (Racconto dell'arte occidentale dai Greci alla Pop Art, a posthumous art history), Trevor Stark (Total Expansion of the Letter, on avant-garde art and language after Mallarmé), and Hal Foster (Brutal Aesthetics, based on his 2018 A.W. Mellon Lectures, examining Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg). The article is written by Marco Enrico Giacomelli and published on Artribune.