Browse Hierarchy ARTH407: Reading Artists Writing

How do we, as art historians, read writings by artists? This course focuses on what takes place when artists engage with the process of writing to consider the relation between image and text, figure and discourse, from the perspective of someone actively engaged in artistic endeavour. Each session will consider a selection of writings by an artist or group of artists (principally from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), plus relevant secondary texts, to discuss the way artists describe the specific nature of their practices, particularly the way that language may resist articulating aspects of the creative process. Apart from the writings by artists covered, this course will also address problems encountered while conducting advanced research in art history.