The International Association of Art Critics (AICA-Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art) was founded in 1950 to revitalize critical discourse, which suffered under Fascism during World War II. AICA was initially affiliated with UNESCO as a non-governmental organization. Currently, there are seventy-two member nations representing more than 4,000 art critics.
The main objectives of AICA are:
• to promote the critical disciplines in the field of visual arts
• to ensure their having sound methodological and ethical bases
• to protect the ethical and professional interests of art critics by defending the rights of all members equally
• to ensure permanent communication among its members by encouraging international meetings
• to facilitate and improve information and international exchanges in the field of visual arts
• to contribute to the reciproca knowledge and closer understanding of differing cultures
• to provide collaboration with developing countries.
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“In this great association we know no North, no South, no East, no West. This has been our pride for all these years. We have no political party. We never have inquired what anybody’s religion is. All we ever have asked is simply, “Do you believe in perfect equality for women?” This is the one article in our creed.”
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“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”
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“Neither can I do anything to please critics belonging to the good old school of “projected biography,” who examine an author’s work, which they do not understand, through the prism of his life, which they do not know.”
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