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James Elkins
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I will be in Beijing and Nanjing this year. Please use the contact form to schedule a lecture, or if you'd like details. (Updated August 17, 2016.). News and latest uploads:. I am still lecturing and teaching, but I am no longer writing books of art history: here's why. Latest texts on this site: the book Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? The book How to Use Your Eyes. And an essay on the complicity between torture and formal analysis. There is also a website with reviews of contemporary piano music. Publish...
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Writing with Images (book project)
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I will be in Beijing and Nanjing this year. Please use the contact form to schedule a lecture, or if you'd like details. (Updated August 17, 2016.). News and latest uploads:. I am still lecturing and teaching, but I am no longer writing books of art history: here's why. Latest texts on this site: the book Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? The book How to Use Your Eyes. And an essay on the complicity between torture and formal analysis. There is also a website with reviews of contemporary piano music. Writing...
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What is Interesting Writing in Art History?: Chapter 7
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What is Interesting Writing in Art History? TJ Clark, The Sight of Death. Voice, in this book, is several worlds away from what happens in Krauss's book. For me the end of the book's opening gambit that readers might see. Its narrator is a passage on p. 30, in which Clark says, parenthetically, "(Remember Chantelou's room with the Sacraments,. I confess that I came late to this book, because I had been teaching and reading Clark's Farewell to an Idea. The book, considered as a book. By which I mean the b...
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What is Interesting Writing in Art History?: Chapter 4
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What is Interesting Writing in Art History? A Manifesto, of Sorts. These are the four kinds of unforced acts of abandonment I would like to explore. The first two are the subject of this project:. 1 Relinquish disciplinary ideas about images in writing, as in the four points in chapter 1. 2 Relinquish the interest in writing texts that present themselves as art history or visual studies. What remains, for me, is the idea of writing on images and, in the end, perhaps not even on. Images, but alongside.
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Marlon Hacla | writing light
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Photographs texts on photography. Tuesday, 11 August 2015. 8220;Fiction writers are lucky in the sense that they can imagine anything. I am not good at imagining things; I’m most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That’s my forte.” Mary Ellen Mark Aperture. Manila in the 1990s Pulse. Art Institute of Chicago. Philippine Photographs Digital Archive. Victoria and Albert Museum. This isn't Happiness. We Take Pictures Too. British Journal of Photography. Journal de la Photographie.
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What is Interesting Writing in Art History?: Chapter 23
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What is Interesting Writing in Art History? The End of Writing About Art. 8212;Art history: “the most evil business there is” (Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters. At this point I come across a boundary, and a kind of uninhabited zone between known territories. Behind me is the literature I have been calling experimental writing on art, and even farther behind, there is art history. Ahead, the writing includes images but is not necessarily about art. What does the land ahead look like? Which appeared in 2014, b...
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My Obsession with DeLillo’s Obsession with Gordon’s Obsession with Hitchcock – figuring fiction
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June 10, 2016. My Obsession with DeLillo’s Obsession with Gordon’s Obsession with Hitchcock. Common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. –Vladimir Nabokov in. Given that it carries the burden of a world grinding down, Don DeLillo’s book,. Scribner’s, 2010). 1993) was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2006. There was a man standing against the north wall, barely visible. Came to DeLillo upon repeated viewing of Gordon’s.
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“The Place of Green Possibles”: Ali Smith’s How to Be Both – figuring fiction
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August 4, 2016. Ldquo;The Place of Green Possibles”:. Ali Smith’s How to Be Both. How to Be Both. While this particular painting receives only a passing glance in the book, it establishes the novel’s primary theme involving many modes of vision and the pleasures and pains of seeing and being seen. I’ve had it both ways, so to speak. Ali Smith, an exceedingly generous writer, offers two ways to read. How to Be Both. I like a twist of yarn, 2 strands twisted together for strength. How to Be Both. Ho this i...
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About / Contact – figuring fiction
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Figuring Fiction looks at the points where contemporary visual art, art writing, and fiction intersect. Thank you so much for reading. PhD, Chair of MA Programs and Associate Professor in History and Theory of Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Art Institute. Daigle is a writer, art historian, and critic whose work has appeared in. 8220;My library is an archive of longings.” — Susan Sontag. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Send to Email Address.
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Sophie Calle & Co. – figuring fiction
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July 13, 2016. Sophie Calle & Co. The sensation that has lingered from an artist’s talk Sophie Calle gave at the School of Visual Arts in New York years ago is the thrilling suspicion that she was quite effortlessly bluffing her way through much of it. And the closing line was good: If you’re thinking about following me home, don’t it’s been done. Stop pulling my leg, I said to Sophie. Enrique Vila-Matas. Because She Never Asked,. The History of Portable Writing,. Travels with Rita Malú. Begins when the ...
