Thinking about art : conversations with Susan Hiller
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Thinking about art : conversations with Susan Hiller
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [260])
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: hbk ISBN 9780719045646
Description
Susan Hiller's talks, lectures, conversations and exhibitions have taken place worldwide, from London and Glasgow to New York and Valencia. This collection documents her continuing involvement with the criteria shifts in cultural paradigms underlying contemporary debates in art practice and art criticism. The practicalities of Hiller's art practice and the everyday experience that informs it are kept fully in mind as she addresses such topics as the role of theory, gender, cultural pluralism, indigenous aesthetics, video performance art, surrealism and conceptual art.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Inside all activities - the artist as anthropologist: art and anthropology, anthropology and art
- an artist looks at ethnographic exhibitions
- dedicated to the unknown artist. Part 2 Within and against - women being artists: I don't care what it's called
- women, language and truth
- looking at new work
- a portrait of the artist in a photomat
- reflections
- O'Keeffe as I see her. Part 3 Fragments of a forgotten language - automatism, dream, collective reveries: Belshazzar's feast/the writing on your wall
- abstract fire
- theory and art
- the dream and the word
- the word and the dream. Part 4 Working through culture - conventions of seeing: thirteen male absences
- the idea of multiplicity in art
- notes for a conference on postmodernism
- an audience for art. Part 5 Objects as events extended over time - the nature of representation: duration and boundaries
- collaborative meaning - art as experience
- slow motion. Part 6 Art and knowledge - a critique of empiricism: it is all not really available for us anymore
- working through objects
- secret practices on display. Appendices: sacred circles.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719045653
Description
Susan Hiller's talks, lectures, conversations and exhibitions have taken place worldwide, from London and Glasgow to New York and Valencia. This collection documents her continuing involvement with the criteria shifts in cultural paradigms underlying contemporary debates in art practice and art criticism. The practicalities of Hiller's art practice and the everyday experience that informs it are kept fully in mind as she addresses such topics as the role of theory, gender, cultural pluralism, indigenous aesthetics, video performance art, surrealism and conceptual art. -- .
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Inside all activities - the artist as anthropologist: art and anthropology, anthropology and art
- an artist looks at ethnographic exhibitions
- dedicated to the unknown artist. Part 2 Within and against - women being artists: I don't care what it's called
- women, language and truth
- looking at new work
- a portrait of the artist in a photomat
- reflections
- O'Keeffe as I see her. Part 3 Fragments of a forgotten language - automatism, dream, collective reveries: Belshazzar's feast/the writing on your wall
- abstract fire
- theory and art
- the dream and the word
- the word and the dream. Part 4 Working through culture - conventions of seeing: thirteen male absences
- the idea of multiplicity in art
- notes for a conference on postmodernism
- an audience for art. Part 5 Objects as events extended over time - the nature of representation: duration and boundaries
- collaborative meaning - art as experience
- slow motion. Part 6 Art and knowledge - a critique of empiricism: it is all not really available for us anymore
- working through objects
- secret practices on display. Appendices: sacred circles.
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