Todd Cronan
Todd Cronan is an educator and author. He is professor at Emory University. His most recent book is Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California. He is editor-in-chief of nonsite.org.
By Todd Cronan
Whatever we mean by historicism, at the very least it means that the conditions in which a work was made play a role in interpreting the work.1 In this sense, art criticism is always historicist. And because there is no other option, saying “always” before it is always useless.
