Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] leave it to them
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:39:16 -0400

Paul Chefurka jotted down the following:

> SS is almost a metacritic - a critic of _an_ art rather than a critic of
> examples of that art.

A metacritic would be someone who critiques critics, not someone who
critiques an art, rather than samples of that art.  The latter would still
be an art critic, although perhaps one whose critique is more interesting to
read.

M.

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