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Title: Merlin James: SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO.
Author: Suzanne Hudson
Publication: Artforum International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2011
Publisher: Artforum International Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 50 Issue: 3 Page: 269(1)
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Title: Merlin James: SIKKEMA JENKINS & CO.
Author: Suzanne Hudson
Publication: Artforum International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2011
Publisher: Artforum International Magazine, Inc.
Volume: 50 Issue: 3 Page: 269(1)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
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Easel-size paintings in historical genres (still lifes, portraits, interiors, and landscapes) that frequently picture domestic architecture (facades, empty rooms, or entire houses). Merlin James's canvases cannot help but read as passe. Yet soliciting such an interpretation--or even relishing a contrarian stance--does not implicate James any more than the rest of us, for whom his practice serves a perennially heuristic function: Viewers question his motivations. In his writing and artmaking ahke, James works through the positions of contemporary discourse, even as his production refuses to become a cipher, an illustration of theory or a placeholder for its evacuation. Thus do most texts about James turn on the question of his sincerity, often proposing that his quaint depictions of architecture (here...
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- PublisherParasol unit foundation for contemporary art
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0956024793
- ISBN 13 9780956024794
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- Number of pages160
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