The Open Studio by Susan Stewart
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
Product Description
Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time and ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early 1980s her work has resonated with practicing artists curators art historians and art critics. Rooted in a broad and learned range of references Stewarts fresh and independent essays bridge the fields of literature aesthetics and contemporary art. Gathering most of Stewarts writing on contemporary art long and short pieces first published in small magazines museum and gallery publications and edited collections The Open Studio illuminates work ranging from the installation art of Ann Hamilton to the sculptures and watercolors of Thomas Schutte the prints and animations of William Kentridge to the films of Tacita Dean. Stewarts essays are often the record of studio conversations with living artists and curators and of the afterlife of those experiences in the solitude of her own study. Considering a wide variety of art forms Stewart finds pathbreaking ways to explore them. Whether she is following central traditions of painting drawing sculpture film photography and printmaking or exploring the less wellknown realms of portrait miniatures collecting practices dollmaking music boxes and gardening Stewart speaks to the creative process in general and to the relation between art and ethics. The Open Studio will be read eagerly by scholars of art poetry and visual theory by historians interested in the links between contemporary and classic literature and art and by teachers students and practitioners of the visual arts.
Condition : New
Author : Susan Stewart
Weight : 570
Publisher : The University Of Chicago Press
Language : English
EAN : 9780226774466
ISBN10 : 0226774465
Format : Hardback
Date of Publication : 20050926
Place of Publication : United States
Pagination : 256 Pages
Dimensions : 23 X 16 X 2