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Site-Writing : The Architecture of Art Criticism - Jane Rendell

Site-Writing

The Architecture of Art Criticism

By: Jane Rendell

Paperback | 31 January 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Site Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism explores the sites of the critic's engagement with art – material, emotional, political and conceptual. Through five different spatial configurations Site-Writing encounters artworks by artists as diverse as Jananne Elina Brotherus, Nathan Coley, Tracey Emin, Cristina Iglesias and Do-Ho Suh. Each one investigates the psychic qualities and architectural dimensions of a particular spatial condition, namely the transitional space of the setting, the frontier between conscious, preconscious and unconscious, the rearrangement of words and things, the folded memory of dTja vu, and the decentring device of the Copernican revolution.

Site-Writing configures what happens when discussions concerning situatedness and site-specificity extend to involve art criticism, and the spatial qualities of writing become as important in conveying meaning as the content of the criticism. The book suggests that in operating as a mode of practice in its own right this kind of criticism questions the terms of reference that relate the critic to the work positioned 'under' critique, and instead proposes alternative positions. This process of configuration writes the sites between critic, work and artist, as well as critic, text and reader, and in so doing constructs an architecture of art criticism.
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'A timely and highly significant contribution to academic and professional fields of contemporary art, Rendell's Site-Writing offers the first substantial exploration of the situatedness of engagement with art. Here Rendell combines exemplary academic argument with immersive critical analysis of contemporary works. It is this distinctive voice which sets Rendell apart from her contemporaries and makes Site-Writing an essential volume for anyone interested in the specificity of viewing and engaging with, producing and writing about art.' - Claire Doherty, Director, Situations, University of the West of England, Bristol; 'Jane Rendell is a nomadic theorist and a theoretical nomad, whose formidable intellect has produced books on the interstitial relationship between space and feminism, place and psyche, city and citizen, architecture and art. Asking, where does biography end and theory begin?A" Rendell's architectonics of criticism performs a praxis that negotiates the personal and the universal. This discloses the critic in all of us, who, in facing the creative work, is confronted with the other (both distant and near), compelling us to reconstruct our own world and therefore the very space we occupy.' - Professor Dorita Hannah, Spatial Design, Massey University College of Creative Arts

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