Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 234 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
1780763379
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9780755694136
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9781780763378
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9780755694129
Series Statement:
International library of cultural studies 34
Content:
"How do artworks 'speak', and how do we 'listen' and respond? These questions underlie the investigation here of Roni Horn's Pair Object III: For Two Rooms, Emily Dickinson's later manuscripts, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Passages Paysages, Fiona Templeton's Cells of Release and Jenny Holzer's Lustmord. The tenets of critical performance, art-writing and site-writing inform the critical method used in Poetics and Place. Each chapter is dedicated to one of these five artworks, and is arranged in order to fulfil three main objectives: to understand how the artworks generate meaning through a material poetics in relation to place; to develop a critical methodology for engaging with them; and to investigate their ethical potential and political imperative. All of this, ultimately, facilitates the development of a triadic relation between theoretical concepts of sign, subject and site at the crossover between poetry, art and spatial practices. This extends each artwork beyond the dyad of a critical encounter in order to offer ́€" and allow others to grasp ́€" an appreciation of how the artwork figures meaningfully, as well as configures meaning, in the wider world of objects and things. The book concludes with a discussion of the ethics of reading from the second person, opening up a debate concerning the role of empathy within contemporary, politically engaged practices in art and poetry."--
Content:
Introduction : Situating Poetics and place : context, method and theoretical foundation -- Object, sign and punctuating space : tracing an emergence of the indexical symbol through Roni Horn's Pair object III : for two rooms -- The page as site : a creative and critical performance of Emily Dickinson's later manuscripts -- Projecting the voice : Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Passages paysages and the ethics of aesthetic relation -- Performing the line : Fiona Templeton's Cells of release as poetical/political activism -- The material reach of the word : Jenny Holzer's Lustmond and the responsibility of art -- Conclusion : Leaving Poetics and place : opening questions onto the material and spatial potential of empathic process.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755694136
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