It has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard
times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or
it has become institutionally routine. This book explores
contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism’s
energies in the wake of a ‘theatrical turn’ in recent visual arts
practice, and the emergence of a ‘performative’ arts writing over
the past decade or so.
Issues addressed include the ‘performing’ of art’s histories;
the consequences for criticism of embracing boredom, distraction
and other ‘queer’ forms of (in)attention; and the importance of
exploring writerly process in responding to aesthetic experience.
Bringing together newly commissioned work from the fields of art
history, performance studies, and visual culture with the writings
of contemporary artists, After Criticism provides a set of
experimental essays which demonstrate how ‘the critical’ might live
on as a vital and efficacious force within contemporary
culture.
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Series Editor’s Preface xi
Introduction: The Paradoxes of Criticism 1
Gavin Butt
Part I Performing Art’s Histories 21
1 Solo Solo Solo 23
Rebecca Schneider
2 Binding to Another’s Wound: Of Weddings and Witness 48
Jane Blocker
3 This is I 65
Niru Ratnam
Part II Distracted and Bored: The Critic Looks Elsewhere 79
4 The Trouble with Men, or, Sex, Boredom, and the Work of Vaginal Davis 81
Jennifer Doyle
5 Utopia’s Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System 101
José Esteban Muñoz
6 Looking Away: Participations in Visual Culture 117
Irit Rogoff
Part III Critical Response/Performative Process 135
7 Itinerant Improvisations: From ‘My Favorite Things’ to an ‘agency of night’ 137
John Seth
8 The Experience of Art as a Living Through of Language 156
Kate Love
9 A Transparent Lecture 176
Matthew Goulish
Selected Bibliography 207
compiled by Andrew Walby
Index 212
Circa l’autore
Gavin Butt teaches in the Unit of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His research interests encompass performance and performativity in the visual arts; queer theory; and queer cultures and their histories. He is the author of a book on gossip and homosexuality entitled Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the American Art World 1948-1963 (2005).
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