How We Practice
Paperback
Art Criticism & TheoryIndividual Artists
Publisher Price: $24.95
ISBN13: 9781954947177
Publisher: Dancing Foxes Press
Published: Dec 29 2026
Pages: 104
Language: English
Beloved artist and collagist Carmen Winant takes on the issue of practice as it relates to art and athletics
The acclaimed American visual artist and writer Carmen Winant (born 1983) is best known for her multimedia works that center found imagery to explore representations of women. Her newest book, How We Practice, is part critical writing and part experimental essay, while also a self-portrait of Winant's life in long-distance competitive running.
This project works to define the often contradictory term as it functions across contemporary art discourse, in the process offering new ways to read it. The book examines practice in relation to legitimacy in the newfound role of artist-as-professional and the influence of MFA programs in promoting creative work as white-collar labor. It imports influences from outside the field of art production--most notably, by looking to the world of athletics--to approach the implications, strategies and potentialities of practice vis-Ã -vis labor and exhaustion, repetition and pleasure, gender and rehearsal.
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