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• Nominated for Robert Motherwell Book Award 2017

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All About Process brings a wealth of art-historical knowledge and perceptive theoretical insight to analyze the crucial but elusive concept of artistic process and makes a powerful argument for its importance, not simply as an indispensable tool for creating more interesting art objects but as part of the essence of art itself. Kim Grant's book provides a welcome resource for resisting the forces of commodification while closing the gap between art and life. --Richard Shusterman, author of Thinking Through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics

<em>All About Process </em>brings a wealth of art-historical knowledge and perceptive theoretical insight to analyze the crucial but elusive concept of artistic process and makes a powerful argument for its importance, not simply as an indispensable tool for creating more interesting art objects but as part of the essence of art itself. Kim Grant's book provides a welcome resource for resisting the forces of commodification while closing the gap between art and life. </p>--Richard Shusterman, author of <em>Thinking Through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics</em></p>

This book is essential for libraries supporting graduate programs in art history or curatorial studies and is recommended for schools of art and design. --Ian McDermott, ARLIS/NA Reviews All About Process brings a wealth of art-historical knowledge and perceptive theoretical insight to analyze the crucial but elusive concept of artistic process and makes a powerful argument for its importance, not simply as an indispensable tool for creating more interesting art objects but as part of the essence of art itself. Kim Grant's book provides a welcome resource for resisting the forces of commodification while closing the gap between art and life. --Richard Shusterman, author of Thinking Through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics This is an elegant, clear text that will serve as an excellent primer for anyone interested in the histories of thinking about making and the artistic process. Art students as well as students of aesthetics and history of art will benefit from its careful, thoughtful synthesis of an array of complex, foundational texts pertaining to the theme of 'process' and making. --Jo Applin, author of Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room--Phalli's Field All About Process brings a wealth of art-historical knowledge and perceptive theoretical insight to analyze the crucial but elusive concept of artistic process and make a powerful argument for its importance, not simply as an indispensable tool for creating more interesting art objects but as part of the essence of art itself. Kim Grant s book provides a welcome resource for resisting the forces of commodification while closing the gap between art and life. Richard Shusterman, author of Thinking Through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics This is an elegant, clear text that will serve as an excellent primer for anyone interested in the histories of thinking about making and the artistic process. Art students as well as students of aesthetics and history of art will benefit from its careful, thoughtful synthesis of an array of complex, foundational texts pertaining to the theme of process and making. Jo Applin, co-author, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room Phalli s Field

This is an elegant, clear text that will serve as an excellent primer for anyone interested in the histories of thinking about making and the artistic process. Art students as well as students of aesthetics and history of art will benefit from its careful, thoughtful synthesis of an array of complex, foundational texts pertaining to the theme of process and making. </p> Jo Applin, co-author, <em>Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity</em></p>

<em>All About Process </em>brings a wealth of art-historical knowledge and perceptive theoretical insight to analyze the crucial but elusive concept of artistic process and make a powerful argument for its importance, not simply as an indispensable tool for creating more interesting art objects but as part of the essence of art itself. Kim Grant s book provides a welcome resource for resisting the forces of commodification while closing the gap between art and life. </p> Richard Shusterman, author of <em>Thinking through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics</em></p>

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Kim Grant is Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception.

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