Creative Writing and Art History - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444350390 ISBN 13: 9781444350395

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

Synopsis

Creative Writing and Art History considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing. Essays range from the analysis of historical examples of art historical writing that have a creative element to examinations of contemporary modes of creative writing about art.

• Considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing
• Covers a diverse subject matter, from late Neolithic stone circles to the writing of a sentence by Flaubert
• The collection both contains essays that survey the topic as well as more specialist articles
• Brings together specialist contributors from both sides of the Atlantic

About this title

From the Back Cover

This collection of articles considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing, from the creative writing of art history to dialogues between styles of creative and art-historical writing. The subject matter covered is diverse, from late Neolithic stone circles to the writing of a sentence by Flaubert. Yet a number of questions circulate – in particular, the stakes involved in various forms of art-historical writing, and the claims made for the art historian’s interpretation. Some authors analyse historical examples of art-historical writing that have a creative element, others explore conversations between literature and art history, whilst others attempt their own modes of creative writing about art. The topics covered within this varied collection include Paul Gauguin’s collages of quotations, Sophie Calle’s collaboration with Paul Auster, Henry James’ portraiture, Bernard Berenson’s fictional artist ‘Amico di Sandro’, Virginia Woolf’s ‘visual’ writing, Pablo Picasso’s solar mythology as re-written by Georges Bataille, and creative writing in the ‘middle voice’.

About the Author

Catherine Grant is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She co-ordinated the Writing Art History project at the Courtauld Institute of Art with Patricia Rubin and is the co-editor (with Lori Waxman) of Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art (2011). 

Patricia Rubin is Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of Art History and the author of Giorgio Vasari: Art and History (1995),Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999), and Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence (2007), and co-author of  Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1444350390
• ISBN 13: 9781444350395
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Grant Catherine, Rubin Patricia