Mike Kelley once wrote that "the main motivation for an artist … to start writing criticism is that the critical establishment was not addressing [certain] cultural concerns".
The critical establishment, though, was not convinced.
To some in the academic critical establishment, Leavis was anathema.
So, should New York's critical establishment take matters into its own hands?
In the same way, the critical establishment had tried to fence off poetry.
EXCEPT, he might well add, in less than visionary terms by Nono and Stravinsky and the critical establishment.
The pair were scorned by the critical establishment, still resolutely anti-Romantic, and by much of the public.
Over the last several years, the critical establishment has beaten a path to his door bearing laurels and awards.
Currently, the Eng Lit business and our critical establishment prefers to define all writing as autobiographical, journalistic.
If this makes it harder for the critical establishment to determine what is important and what isn't, well, so what?
— and was blasted by a disproportionately vocal faction of the online critical establishment that was quick to defend pop music's very own one per cent.
