After criticism : new responses to art and performance
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After criticism : new responses to art and performance
（New interventions in art history, 4）
Blackwell, 2005
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-211) and index
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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
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