What it means to write about art : interviews with art critics

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What it means to write about art : interviews with art critics

Title remainder

interviews with art critics

Statement of responsibility

by Jarrett Earnest

Creator

• Earnest, Jarrett,

Editor

• Earnest, Jarrett,

Interviewer

• Earnest, Jarrett,

Subject

• Art critics
• Art critics -- Interviews
• Interviews
• 20.07 art criticism, art review
• Interviews

Genre

• Interviews

Language

eng

Summary

In the last 50 years, art criticism has flourished as never before. Moving from niche to mainstream, it is now widely taught at universities, practiced in newspapers, magazines and online, and has become the subject of debate by readers, writers and artists worldwide. Equal parts oral history and analysis of craft, What it Means to Write About Art offers an unprecedented overview of American art writing. Jarrett Earnest's wide-ranging conversations with critics, historians, journalists, novelists, poets and theorists each of whom approaches the subject from a unique position illustrate different ways of writing, thinking and looking at art. These in-depth conversations about writing and art are situated within individual life experiences: for instance John Ashbery recalls finding Rimbaud's poetry through his first crush at 16; Rosalind Krauss remembers stealing the design of October from Massimo Vignelli; Paul Chaat Smith details his early days with Jimmie Durham in the American Indian Movement; Dave Hickey talks about writing country songs with Waylon Jennings; Michele Wallace relives her late-night and early-morning interviews with James Baldwin; Lucy Lippard describes confronting Clement Greenberg at a lecture; Eileen Myles asserts her belief that her negative review incited the Women's Action Coalition; and Fred Moten recounts falling in love with Renoir while at Harvard

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YDX

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography