The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists (Elements in Corpus Linguistics)

Hocking, Darryl

ISBN 10: 1009225731 / ISBN 13: 9781009225731

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists (Elements in Corpus Linguistics)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009225731
• ISBN 13: 9781009225731
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The practices of visual artists can never be decontextualised from language. Firstly, artists are constantly in dialogue with their peers, dealers, critics, and audiences about their creative activities and these interactions impact on the work they produce. Secondly, artists' conceptualisations of what artistic practice encompasses are always shaped by wider social discourses. These discourses, however, and their manifestation in the language of everyday life are subject to continual change, and potentially reshape the way that artists conceptualise their practices. Using a 235,000-word diachronic corpus developed from artists' interviews and statements, this Element investigates shifts in artists' use of language to conceptualise their art practice from 1950 to 2019. It then compares these shifts to see if they align with changes in the wider English lexicon and whether there might be a relationship between everyday language change and the aesthetic and conceptual developments that take place in the art world.