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Of course it's difficult to judge work before it has been done, Bateson said, but the projects in question probably should not have been funded.
If you have an opportunity to respond to a letter that is unjustifiably critical, try (if you can) to succinctly point out, in the gentlest possible way, that the writer is not the best person to judge work in your field, and guide the committee toward more informed opinions (external evaluators and reviewers of papers or grant proposals).
This hypocrisy might be what really annoys me, or maybe it's that people often aren't equipped with the tools or intellectual opportunities to think for themselves, or enough freedom to judge work on its own merit.
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Mr. Dickenson, who is black, maintained that it was "cultural tyranny" to judge works from the past by current standards.
In an essay for the class, Rosenberg wrote, "I have read a modest amount — not a great deal, but enough to be able to judge works for myself.
It's a mark of mediocrity, on the part of an artist or, for that matter, of a critic, to judge works by their ostensible subjects rather than by their approach to them.
She also advises collectors to judge works in the context of others by the artist from the same period and to check condition firsthand to see what repairs have been made rather than rely on a gallery's or auction house's condition report.
To judge a work of art involves self-surrender.
But readers must judge for themselves, just as they learn to judge the work of Picasso and Einstein.
It is important to be able to judge a work in its totality.
Then she learned not to judge any work at the halfway point.
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