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Poetics and Place: The Architecture of Sign, Subjects and Site
Hardcover
Series: International Library of Cultural Studies, Book 34
PhilosophyGeneral Architecture
ISBN13: 9781780763378
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 19 2013
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
How do artworks 'speak', and how do we 'listen'
and respond? These questions underlie the
investigation here of Roni Horn's Pair Object
III: For Two Rooms, Emily Dickinson's later
manuscripts, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Passages
Paysages, Fiona Templeton's Cells of Release and
Jenny Holzer's Lustmord. The tenets of critical
inform the critical method used in Poetics
and Place. Each chapter is dedicated to one of
these five artworks, and is arranged in order
to fulfil three main objectives: to understand
how the artworks generate meaning through a
material poetics in relation to place; to develop
a critical methodology for engaging with them;
and to investigate their ethical potential and
political imperative. All of this, ultimately,
facilitates the development of a triadic relation
between theoretical concepts of sign, subject
and site at the crossover between poetry,
art and spatial practices. This extends each
artwork beyond the dyad of a critical encounter
in order to offer - and allow others to grasp
- an appreciation of how the artwork figures
meaningfully, as well as configures meaning,
in the wider world of objects and things. The
book concludes with a discussion of the ethics
of reading from the second person, opening up
a debate concerning the role of empathy within
contemporary, politically engaged practices in
art and poetry.
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