Overview

Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee bring together a compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaning and how connecting with artists and their work can transform artistic production into innovative critical insights and knowledge. The contributors to this volume include artists, museum curators, art historians, and anthropologists, who address artistic production in a variety of locations and media to question previous uses of interview and provoke alternative understandings of art.

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Author:   Joanna Grabski ,  Carol Magee ,  Patrick McNaughton ,  Joseph F. Jordan
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780253006912

ISBN 10:   0253006910
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   28 May 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Work of Interviews Carol Magee and Joanna Grabski 1. Talking to People about Art Patrick McNaughton 2. Ghostly Stories: Interviews with Artists in Dakar and the Productive Space around Absence Joanna Grabski 3. Can the Artist Speak? Hamid Kachmar's Subversive Redemptive Art of Resistance Joseph Jordan 4. Photography, Narrative Interventions, and (Cross) Cultural Representations Carol Magee 5. Narrating the Artist: Seyni Camara and the Multiple Constructions of the Artistic Persona Silvia Forni 6. Interview—Akinbode Akinbiyi Akinbode Akinbiyi 7. Inter-Weaving Narratives of Art and Activism: Sandra Kriel's Heroic Women Kim Miller 8. Politics of Narrative at the African Burial Ground in NYC: The Final Monument Andrea E. Frohne 9. Who Owns the Past: Constructing an Art History of a Malian Masquerade Mary Jo Arnoldi 10. Framing Practices: Artists' Voices and the Power of Self-Representation Christine Mullen Kreamer 11. Undisciplined Knowledge Allan deSouza and Allyson Purpura Appendix: Interlocutors Contributors Index

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This book enhances our appreciation for interviews as a research tool and cautions us to use this tool with greater awareness of its power to shape our subjects. Victoria Rovine, University of Florida

This book enhances our appreciation for interviews as a research tool and cautions us to use this tool with greater awareness of its power to shape our subjects. -Victoria Rovine, University of Florida In these essays, one hears the narratives and learns the perspectives of a diverse group of people that greatly illuminate both meaning and intent. -African Studies Review

Author Information

Joanna Grabski is Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at Denison University. Carol Magee is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture.

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