Overview

How do artworks ‘speak’, and how do we ‘listen’ and respond? These questions underlie the investigation here of Roni Horn’s Pair Object III: For Two Rooms, Emily Dickinson’s later manuscripts, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Passages Paysages, Fiona Templeton’s Cells of Release and Jenny Holzer’s Lustmord. The tenets of critical performance, art-writing and site-writing inform the critical method used in Poetics and Place. Each chapter is dedicated to one of these five artworks, and is arranged in order to fulfil three main objectives: to understand how the artworks generate meaning through a material poetics in relation to place; to develop a critical methodology for engaging with them; and to investigate their ethical potential and political imperative. All of this, ultimately, facilitates the development of a triadic relation between theoretical concepts of sign, subject and site at the crossover between poetry, art and spatial practices. This extends each artwork beyond the dyad of a critical encounter in order to offer – and allow others to grasp – an appreciation of how the artwork figures meaningfully, as well as configures meaning, in the wider world of objects and things. The book concludes with a discussion of the ethics of reading from the second person, opening up a debate concerning the role of empathy within contemporary, politically engaged practices in art and poetry.

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Author:   Kristen Kreider
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781780763378

ISBN 10:   1780763379
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements xiii Introduction - Situating Poetics and Place: Context, Method and Theoretical Foundation 1 1 Object, Sign and Punctuating Space: Tracing an Emergence of the Indexical Symbol through Roni Horn's Pair Object III: For Two Rooms 39 2 The Page as Site: A Creative and Critical Performance of Emily Dickenson's Later Manuscripts 64 3 Projecting the Voice: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Passages Paysages and the Ethics of Aesthetic Relation 102 4 Performing the Line: Fiona Templeton's Cells of Release as Poetical/Political Activism 130 5 The Material Reach of the World: Jenny Holzer's Lustmord and the Responsibility of Art 164 Conclusion - Leaving Poetics and Place: Opening Questions onto the Material and Spatial Potential of Emphatic Process 193 Notes 199 Bibliography 215 Index 229

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Kristen Kreider is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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