Creative Writing and Art History
Art History Special Issues
1. Edition March 2012
208 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
This collection considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing, from the creative writing of art history to dialogues between styles of creative and art-historical writing. The topics covered include Paul Gauguin's collages of quotations, Sophie Calle's collaboration with Paul Auster, Henry James' portraiture, Bernard Berenson's fictional artist 'Amico di Sandro', Virginia Woolf's 'visual' writing, Pablo Picasso's solar mythology as re-written by Georges Bataille, and creative writing in the 'middle voice'
Creative Writing and Art History considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing. Essays range from the analysis of historical examples of art historical writing that have a creative element to examinations of contemporary modes of creative writing about art.
* Considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing
* Covers a diverse subject matter, from late Neolithic stone circles to the writing of a sentence by Flaubert
* The collection both contains essays that survey the topic as well as more specialist articles
* Brings together specialist contributors from both sides of the Atlantic
1. 'A narrative of what wishes what it wishes it to be': An Introduction to 'Creative Writing and Art History': Catherine Grant.
2. Writing Perceptions: The Matter of Words and the Rollright Stones: Nicholas Chare.
3. (Blind Summit) Art Writing, Narrative, Middle Voice: Gavin Parkinson.
4. Connoisseurship, Painting, and Personhood: Jeremy Melius.
5. Under the Hat of the Art Historian: Panofsky, Berenson, Warburg: Francesco Ventrella.
6. 'The Liar': Fictions of the Person: Patricia Rubin.
7. 'Scattered notes': Authorship and Originality in Paul Gauguin's Diverses choses: Linda Goddard.
8. 'Sudden gleams of (f)light': 'Intuition as Method'?: Charlotte de Mille.
9. Rotten Sun: C. F. B. Miller.
10. Notes on Writing as Vertigo: Satish Padiyar.
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Patricia Rubin is Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of Art History and the author of Giorgio Vasari: Art and History (1995),Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999), and Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence (2007), and co-author of Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999).
