This article is concerned with the relation between dialogism and art criticism. Dialogism is a notion introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin based on his analysis on the concept of polyphony which is borrowed from music. In this article, the importance of dialogism is discussed in philosophical anthropology, culture, and contemporary art criticism. Moreover, the notion of dialogism is studied in relation to Bakhtin’s latest concepts of answerability and unfinalizability. Criticism is a dialogue between two semiological systems, for instance, between language and language or language and a visual semiological system. Therefore, dialogism is located within any criticism. This article discusses that the most important aspects of dialogic quality of the contemporary art criticism are the increased interactive role of the audience, the importance of the indeterminacy of meaning, and its receptiveness of other disciplines. Eventually, the development of a dialogic criticism among various artistic discourses which leads to the production of an artistic text has been discussed in this research.
The approach of this work is a combination of approaches which an artistic research is concerned with, such as art, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, and cultural studies.