Main entry:

Rendell, Jane, 1967-

Title & Author:

Site-writing : the architecture of art criticism / Jane Rendell.

Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Description:

xvii, 309 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index.
Prologue : Pre-positions -- Configuration 1. Triangular structures with variable thirds : Transitional space ; Undoing architecture ; One + one = three: Tracey Emin's You forgot to kiss my soul ; Confessional construction -- Configuration 2. To and fro : Frontier creatures ; Travelling the distance/encountering the other ; To miss the desert ; You tell me ; An embellishment: purdah -- Configuration 3. A rearrangement : Word-presentations and thing-presentations ; The Welsh dresser ; Longing for the lightness of spring ; Les mots et les choses -- Configuration 4. That which keeps coming back : Déjà Vu ; 'Some things you see will remind you of others': Déjà vu in the work of Cristina Iglesias ; La passante ; 'She is walking about in a town which she does not know' -- Configuration 5. Decentring/recentring : The Copernican revolution ; Somewhere else she is told ; Deecntring/recentring Do-Ho Suh ; Everywhere else ; Trafalgar Square: détournements -- Epilogue : Alien positions.

Summary:

The prominent cultural critic Mieke Bal defines the new discipline of 'art writing' as a fresh mode of criticism, which aims to 'put the art first'. Following this definition, this volume puts the sites of the critic's engagement with art first.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781845119997 (pbk.)
1845119991 (pbk.)

Subject:

Ani, Jananne al-
Brotherus, Elina.
Coley, Nathan.
Emin, Tracey.
Iglesias, Cristina.
Suh, Do-Ho.
Art criticism.
Critique d'art.
art criticism.
Art and Design.
Kunstkritik
Konstkritik.

Form/genre:

Art criticism.
Critiques d'art.

Added entries:

Architecture of art criticism

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277424
Call No.: BIB 212239
Status: Available