Any purportedly categorical classifications based upon geography, sex, race, or academic background do not belong in art criticism, as they rarely say anything significant about the style of an individual artist's work. Such epithets customarily function as sales slogans, capitalizing upon pre-established favorable auras of key words (e.g., New York, Paris, feminism, etc.) in the marketing both of works and of opinions (and even of critical
books), mostly to establish significance for art or artists...
