Research Catalog

Title

Not a day without a line : understanding artists' writings / Helena De Preester (ed.).

Publication

Gent : Academia Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Preester, Helena de

Description

xii, 205 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Throughout the 20th and in the beginning of the 21st century, many artists take up a double role as both art practitioner and writer. In recent years, scholars and the general public have become increasingly interested in artists' writings. A growing number of collected writings by many major 20th and 21st century artists is now being published in carefully edited publications. What is much less present, however, is a focus on how to understand these artists' writings. That is the aim of the present volume, which contains contributions by artists, academics and curators who undertake a reflection on artists' writings from the 20th and the 21st centuries. Emphasizing the visual arts, including performance art, 'Not a day without a line' focuses on artists' writings that do not resemble the more explanatory kinds of writings by art critics, art philosophers or art historians, but which challenge our understanding of them as a text or an instance of reflection. The intricate relations between writing and art practice, between text and image, and between writing and the life of the artist, are important factors in what could be called the artist's methodological promiscuity in writing.

Subject

• Artists' writings
• 20.07 art criticism, art review
• Künstler
• Schrifttum
• Interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Letter to the reader / Anouk De Clercq -- Disciplinarity and methodological promiscuity in artists' writings / Helena De Preester -- I Dialogue and communication. Opening the letters of Niki de Saint Phalle : what is now known was once only imagined / Isabelle Schwarz -- Textual dialogue : on game-playing & collaboration / Carson & Miller -- II Emancipating writing in the 1960s. "Why let the critic speak for you?" : New York artists' writings, 1965-68 / Leanne Carroll -- Language as material : textual structures in the writings of Robert Smithson and his contemporaries / Dorothee Wagner -- Texts to be read and to be looked at : the Entropic writing of Robert Smithson / Laurence Corbel -- III Text, body and performance. Keeping score : considering performance texts as artists' writings / Susan Jarosi -- Record work : accounts of writing, reading, moving and speaking performance's documentary history / Giles Bailey -- The matter of dialogue : aesthetic discourse as and in the artistic practice of Bruce Nauman / Eva Ehninger -- IV Methodological promiscuity in contemporary artists' writings. The poetry of Gagarin / Simon Deakin -- "I'm ready" : thinking about artists' writings in a global context today / Kristine Stiles.

ISBN

• 9789038222202
• 9038222203

LCCN

2014405814

OCLC

• ocn865468478
• 865468478
• SCSB-1767837

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library