Roy Harris is emeritus professor of general linguistics at the University of Oxford and honorary fellow of St Edmund Hall. He has also held university teaching posts in Hong Kong, Boston, and Paris.
Years ago in his Prickly Paradigm Press pamphlet, What Happened to Art Criticism, James Elkins claimed that art criticism is in a state of crisis worldwide. . . .Into the fray comes the distinguished linguist Roy Harris who has published, also with Prickly Paradigm, The Great Debate About Art. Harris takes up Elkins' diagnosis and places it within the long history of discussing art, claiming, however, that as something worth analyzing and debating, art is over. . . .This is not because criticism won't have works to attach itself to, but because the conditions for criticism mattering are long gone. The arts died with Dada, since which criticism has been a kind of diversion of attention from their absence."--John Rapko "ArtCritical" (8/17/2010 12:00:00 AM)
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