Peter Plagens

On page 17 in Elkins book he mentiones Peter Plagens when reflecting on other ways to divide the varying types of contemporary art criticism.
Above is a picture of Plagens Novel "The Art Critic" published on artnet "in 24 installments"(Halasz)
Below is a link to a review of the novel by Piri Halasz at artcritical.com
http://www.artcritical.com/halasz/PHPlagens.htm


"The “book” is about a slightly cranky male critic of a certain age who has seen enough and done enough in the art world to call it just like he sees it. The writer clearly has the home court advantage on this one, and readers can look forward to some straight-up acerbic commentary on contemporary art"(Szántó)----http://www.artworldsalon.com/blog/2008/08/summer-reading-the-art-critic/