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Site-Writing Jane Rendell

Site-Writing By Jane Rendell

Site-Writing by Jane Rendell

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Shows what happens when discussions concerning situatedness and site-specificity enter the writing of art criticism. This title explores the sites such as the material, emotional, political and conceptual settings of the artwork's construction, exhibition and documentation, as well as those remembered, dreamed and imagined.

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Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism by Jane Rendell

The prominent cultural critic Mieke Bal defines the new discipline of 'art writing' as a fresh mode of criticism, which aims to 'put the art first'. Following this definition, "Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism" puts the sites of the critic's engagement with art first. The book puts into shape what happens when discussions concerning situatedness and site-specificity enter the writing of art criticism. The sites explored are the material, emotional, political and conceptual settings of the artwork's construction, exhibition and documentation, as well as those remembered, dreamed and imagined. Through five different spatial configurations - both psychic and architectural - "Site-Writing" explores artworks by artists as diverse as Jananne Al-Ani, Elina Brotherus, Nathan Coley, Tracey Emin, Christina Iglesias and Do-Ho Suh, aiming to adapt such psychoanalytic ways of working as free association and conjectural interpretation to art criticism.

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'A timely and highly significant contribution to academic and professional fields of contemporary art, Rendell's Site-Writing offers the first substantial exploration of the situatedness of engagement with art. Here Rendell combines exemplary academic argument with immersive critical analysis of contemporary works. It is this distinctive voice which sets Rendell apart from her contemporaries and makes Site-Writing an essential volume for anyone interested in the specificity of viewing and engaging with, producing and writing about art.' - Claire Doherty, Director, Situations, University of the West of England, Bristol; 'Jane Rendell is a nomadic theorist and a theoretical nomad, whose formidable intellect has produced books on the interstitial relationship between space and feminism, place and psyche, city and citizen, architecture and art. Asking, where does biography end and theory begin?A" Rendell's architectonics of criticism performs a praxis that negotiates the personal and the universal. This discloses the critic in all of us, who, in facing the creative work, is confronted with the other (both distant and near), compelling us to reconstruct our own world and therefore the very space we occupy.' - Professor Dorita Hannah, Spatial Design, Massey University College of Creative Arts

About Jane Rendell

Professor Jane Rendell is Director of Architectural Research at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She is author of Art and Architecture (I.B.Tauris, 2006), The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002), and co-editor of Critical Architecture (2007); Spatial Imagination (2005); The Unknown City (2001); Intersections (2000); Gender, Space, Architecture (1999) and Strangely Familiar (1995).

Table of Contents

List of Images Acknowledgements Prologue: Pre-Positions Configuration 1 Triangular Structures with Variable Thirds Transitional Space Undoing Architecture One + One = Three: Tracey Emins You Forgot to Kiss my Soul Confessional Construction Configuration 2 Back and Forth Frontier Creatures Travelling the Distance/Encountering the Other To Miss the Desert You Tell Me An Embellishment: Purdah Configuration 3 A Rearrangement Word-Presentations and Thing-Presentations The Welsh Dresser Longing for the Lightness of Spring Les Mots et Les Choses Configuration 4: That Which Keeps Coming Back Deja Vu Some Things You See Will Remind You of Others: Deja Vu in the Work of Cristina Iglesias La Passante She is walking about in a town which she does not know Configuration 5: Decentering/Recentering The Copernican Revolution Somewhere Else She is Told Decentering/Recentering Do-Ho Suh Everywhere Else Trafalgar Square: Detournements Epilogue: Alien Positions Endnotes Bibliography Index

Additional information

NPB9781845119997
9781845119997
1845119991
Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism by Jane Rendell
Jane Rendell
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2011-01-11
328
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