What it means to write about art : interviews with art critics

By:

Earnest, Jarrett

Material type: Text

TextSeries: EkphrasisPublication details: New York, NY : David Zwirner Books, 2018.Description: 557 pages cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781941701898 (softcover)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

701.18 EAR 20532 23

Contents:

Hilton Als John Ashbery Bill Berkson Yve-Alain Bois Huey Copeland Holland Cotter Douglas Crimp Darby English Hal Foster Michael Fried Thyrza Nichols Goodeve Dave Hickey Siri Hustvedt Kellie Jones Chris Kraus Rosalind Krauss Lucy Lippard Fred Moten Eileen Myles Molly Nesbit Jed Perl Barbara Rose Jerry Saltz Peter Schjeldahl Barry Schwabsky Paul Chaat Smith Roberta Smith Lynne Tillman Michele Wallace John Yau

Summary: In the last 50 years, art criticism has flourished as never before. Moving from niche to mainstream, it is now widely taught at universities, practiced in newspapers, magazines and online, and has become the subject of debate by readers, writers and artists worldwide. Equal parts oral history and analysis of craft, What it Means to Write About Art offers an unprecedented overview of American art writing. Jarrett Earnest's wide-ranging conversations with critics, historians, journalists, novelists, poets and theorists each of whom approaches the subject from a unique position illustrate different ways of writing, thinking and looking at art. These in-depth conversations about writing and art are situated within individual life experiences: for instance John Ashbery recalls finding Rimbaud's poetry through his first crush at 16; Rosalind Krauss remembers stealing the design of October from Massimo Vignelli; Paul Chaat Smith details his early days with Jimmie Durham in the American Indian Movement; Dave Hickey talks about writing country songs with Waylon Jennings; Michele Wallace relives her late-night and early-morning interviews with James Baldwin; Lucy Lippard describes confronting Clement Greenberg at a lecture; Eileen Myles asserts her belief that her negative review incited the Women's Action Coalition; and Fred Moten recounts falling in love with Renoir while at Harvard

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Marium Abdulla Library Non-Ref	Foundation Year	701.18 /EAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	20532

Hilton Als
John Ashbery
Bill Berkson
Yve-Alain Bois
Huey Copeland
Holland Cotter
Douglas Crimp
Darby English
Hal Foster
Michael Fried
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Dave Hickey
Siri Hustvedt
Kellie Jones
Chris Kraus
Rosalind Krauss
Lucy Lippard
Fred Moten
Eileen Myles
Molly Nesbit
Jed Perl
Barbara Rose
Jerry Saltz
Peter Schjeldahl
Barry Schwabsky
Paul Chaat Smith
Roberta Smith
Lynne Tillman
Michele Wallace
John Yau

In the last 50 years, art criticism has flourished as never before. Moving from niche to mainstream, it is now widely taught at universities, practiced in newspapers, magazines and online, and has become the subject of debate by readers, writers and artists worldwide. Equal parts oral history and analysis of craft, What it Means to Write About Art offers an unprecedented overview of American art writing. Jarrett Earnest's wide-ranging conversations with critics, historians, journalists, novelists, poets and theorists each of whom approaches the subject from a unique position illustrate different ways of writing, thinking and looking at art. These in-depth conversations about writing and art are situated within individual life experiences: for instance John Ashbery recalls finding Rimbaud's poetry through his first crush at 16; Rosalind Krauss remembers stealing the design of October from Massimo Vignelli; Paul Chaat Smith details his early days with Jimmie Durham in the American Indian Movement; Dave Hickey talks about writing country songs with Waylon Jennings; Michele Wallace relives her late-night and early-morning interviews with James Baldwin; Lucy Lippard describes confronting Clement Greenberg at a lecture; Eileen Myles asserts her belief that her negative review incited the Women's Action Coalition; and Fred Moten recounts falling in love with Renoir while at Harvard

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