After criticism : new responses to art and performance

Author(s)

• Butt, Gavin

Bibliographic Information

After criticism : new responses to art and performance

edited by Gavin Butt

（New interventions in art history, 4）

Blackwell, 2005

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-211) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

It has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become institutionally routine. This book explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism's energies in the wake of a 'theatrical turn' in recent visual arts practice, and the emergence of a 'performative' arts writing over the past decade or so. Issues addressed include the 'performing' of art's histories; the consequences for criticism of embracing boredom, distraction and other 'queer' forms of (in)attention; and the importance of exploring writerly process in responding to aesthetic experience. Bringing together newly commissioned work from the fields of art history, performance studies, and visual culture with the writings of contemporary artists, After Criticism provides a set of experimental essays which demonstrate how 'the critical' might live on as a vital and efficacious force within contemporary culture.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Series Editor's Preface xi Introduction: The Paradoxes of Criticism 1 Gavin Butt Part I Performing Art's Histories 21 1 Solo Solo Solo 23 Rebecca Schneider 2 Binding to Another's Wound: Of Weddings and Witness 48 Jane Blocker 3 This is I 65 Niru Ratnam Part II Distracted and Bored: The Critic Looks Elsewhere 79 4 The Trouble with Men, or, Sex, Boredom, and the Work of Vaginal Davis 81 Jennifer Doyle 5 Utopia's Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System 101 Jose Esteban Munoz 6 Looking Away: Participations in Visual Culture 117 Irit Rogoff Part III Critical Response/Performative Process 135 7 Itinerant Improvisations: From "My Favorite Things" to an "agency of night" 137 John Seth 8 The Experience of Art as a Living Through of Language 156 Kate Love 9 A Transparent Lecture 176 Matthew Goulish Selected Bibliography 207 compiled by Andrew Walby Index 212

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA68627837
• ISBN:
  • 0631232834
  • 0631232842
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden, MA
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 215 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NX456.5.P38
  • DC22 : 701/.18/09049
  • NDC9 : 704
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Performance art
  • LCSH : Art criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA6149486X