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About Stephen Bann
No full textThis collection explores the writings of Stephen Bann, a leading art historian with an international reputation for his studies of the visual arts and cultural theory. Contributors reflect on Bann's work in terms of their own intellectual formation, offering an active engagement with writings which have shaped and continue to inform visual studies, art history, studies of the museum and the history of collecting, garden and landscape studies, film and photography , cultural theory. As this collection acknowledges, Bann's writings have 'oriented the concerns of a whole generation of scholars'. The essays are presented with a portfolio of Bann's poem prints
About Mieke Bal
No full textAbout Mieke Bal provides a sustained scholarly assessment of Bal's writings in art history, visual studies and critical theory. The collection considers Bal's writings in depth, developing and extending her thinking, and providing enlightening reflection on many of her most important ideas and concepts. The essays consider Bal's approaches to the art of the past alongside more recent film, photography, graffiti, interactive immersive environments, online performance, and several ofher recent films. Essays consider historical art such as the Sistine Chapel and the watercolours of Charlotte Salomon, alongside discussions of intermediality in art by Gabriel Orozco, Candice Breitz, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, and reflections on works by Christian Boltanski, Ydessa Hendeles, and Peter Forgacs in relation to the archival medium in Holocaust studies. Attention is given to graffiti, interactive immersive environments, online performance, and areas of visual interest often positioned outside the pages of art history.
The collection includes an edited conversation between Mieke Bal and Michael Ann Holly, entitled 'Reading, Writing, Filming, Dreaming, Dressing'
Between Luxury and the Everyday: Decorative Arts in Eighteenth-Century France
No full textThis collection of essays, co-edited with Katie Scott, redefines the study of the decorative arts in eighteenth-century France. It includes broader accounts of the impact of Enlightenment philosophy in shaping the understanding of the 'decorative arts' alongside case studies of silks, furniture, and architecture, drawing on recent theories of the body and space. Alive to the everyday pleasures found in objects, furnishings and dress, the volume illuminates the material worlds of consumers, from the extravagance of the court to the more modest taste of middle-class families, linking these material worlds to political and social life. The culture of luxury goods is considered alongside the changes to dress and design in the Revolutionary perio
Tracey Emin: Art into Life
No full textTracey Emin has undergone an extraordinary metamorphosis from a young, unknown artist into the ‘bad girl’ of the Young British Art movement, challenging the complacency of the art establishment in both her work and her life. Today she is arguably the doyenne of the British art scene and attracts more acclaim than controversy. Her work is known by a wide audience, yet rarely receives the critical attention it deserves.
Tracey Emin: Art Into Life is the first academic book to examine Emin's artistic practice in nearly 2 decades. Writers from a range of art historical, artistic and curatorial perspectives investigate how Emin’s art, life and celebrity status have become inextricably intertwined. This innovative collection of essays includes the first detailed study of Emin's engagement in her art and writings of her Turkish Cypriot heritage and the first account of her early years as an artist. Emin’s intersectional identity, questions of ageing and sexuality are considered alongside debates issues of autobiography, self-presentation , authenticity and performativity. Attention to key works is accompanied by discussions of the multi-media exchanges of her work and the tensions between art and craft.
With its focus on the central themes of Emin’s art and accessible theorization of her creative practice, Tracey Emin: Art into Life will interest a broad readership from scholars and students to Emin's wide fanbase
Twenty Years in the Making: Tracey Emin’s My Bed, 1998–2018
No full textThis chapter examines the making of My Bed (1998), the artist’s signature work, over twenty years. Drawing on Arjun Appadurai’s writing on the social life of things, three distinct chapters in the social life of this art work are identified. In its first chapter My Bed took its place on the global exhibition circuit, in Tokyo and New York in 1998 and in London the following year. Its second and third chapters each opened with the sale of My Bed in 2000 and in 2014, events Appadurai classifies as tournaments of value.This chapter traces the exhibition histories of the work, noting that in each chapter My Bed has been marked by its variant installations in the arrangement of its elements and in its curatorial presentation. Initially (and again in Tracey Emin; Twenty Years (Edinburgh 2008), My Bed was presented in dialogue with the artist’s multimedia output. In its later chapters it has been extracted from the artist’s oeuvre: in its recent re-appearances at Tate Britain (2015), Tate Liverpool (2016) and Turner Contemporary (Margate 2017) it has been inserted into narratives of British art through juxtapositions with Bacon, Blake and Turner. My Bed’s engagement with the concerns of its contemporary moment, migration, diaspora, the shape of Europe, and homelessness, evident in its London showing of 1999, has been replaced with a trans-historical valency that retains a close dependency on the artist’s autobiography
Location
No full textLocation has become one of the most interesting issues in art history and cultural studies, alongside debates about de-territorialisation, site-specificity, situatedness, space and place. This collection of essays by art historians, anthropologists, and commentators on visual culture investigates the theme of location from diverse perspectives, It examines the manifold ways in which art, artists, and writers on art migrate, as well as probing the significance of location in producing, curating, collecting and writing about art. Alongide questions of site-specifcity and place, essays discuss the trans-national migrations of images and visual forms.
Edited and introduced with Fintan Cullen
Local/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century
No full textLocal/Global: Women Artists in the Nineteenth Century investigates women artists working in disparate parts of the world in this formative period of modernity. This major new book offers a dazzling array of compelling essays on art, architecture and design by leading writers. Opening with a dedication to the pioneering art historian, Joan Kerr, the essays chart a journey beginning in Australia, and moving to the imperial court in China; South Asia, and the Ottoman empire. Painters and studios in Paris, women patron-builders in Britain and wrists in Ireland continue the direction west, and the collection concludes with essays on souvenir art by native and settler women, white settler identities, and on textiles in North America, and on women artists in Mexico. Common themes across the collection include forms of practice, patronage and collecting, identity and appearance, the importance of place. This pioneering collection addresses issues at the heart of feminist and post-colonial studies: the nature of difference, discrepant modernities and cross-cultural encounters
Spectacle and Display
No full textThis collection reflects on the ways in which historically and trans-culturally collections have been curated and displayed. Contributors address the arrangement of public and private collections, the creation of visual spectacle, thematics in collecting, institutional histories, and questions of national heritage and identity. Narratives of display in major museums such as the National Gallery in London are considered alongside spectacular international events such as the Festival of India, Manchester Art Treasures, the Japan World Exposition of 1970, or the public presentations of a Byzantine miniature. Contributors consider the politics of spectacle and questions of audience. The collection includes an authoritative reflection on museum studies today, and artists's pages by Neil Cummings and Marisya Lewandowska
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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