Booklet entitled "Reads like a book" ([16] pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm) tipped in inside back cover. Booklet accompanies the exhibition, "Reads like a book, the book lovers project" held January 23-March 15, 2015, Cricoteka, the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow. Authors include: Roland Barthes, Matthew Brannon, Barbara Browning, Marie de Brugerolle, Angus Cameron, Guy de Cointet, Henry Joseph Darger, Liam Gillick, Kenneth Goldsmith, Christopher K. Ho, Yayoi Kusama, Jill Magid, David Maroto, Ralph McCarthy, Tom McCarthy, Ingo Niermann, Seth Price, Cheng Ran, Valérie Rousseau, Lindsay Seers, Seth Siegelaub, Monika Szewczyk, Jan Tumlir, Joanna Zielińska.
Contents:
Foreword / David Maroto and Joanna Zielińska -- Introduction. The Book Lovers: The novel as a medium in the visual arts / David Maroto -- The space of the page: Literary aspects of the artist novel. The preparation of the novel / Roland Barthes; Art is a haven, but where's the crane to unload? / Ingo Niermann in conversation with Tom McCarthy; Artists are the elite of the servant class / David Maroto in conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith -- The exhibition space: Redefining art practice. Being nothing: Paradoxy and looking for headless / Angus Cameron; Laocoön stikes back / Christopher K. Ho; A compressed core of ideas / Monika Szewczyk in conversation with Liam Gillick; Reads like a book / Joanna Zielińska; It has to be this way² / Lindsay Seers; Circadian rhythm / Cheng Ran; Failed states / Jill Magid. Public space: The social life of the novel. Dispersion / Seth Price; Dear reader: The novel's call to perform / Barbara Browning; What happens when the artwork becomes a novel? / David Maroto in conversation with Seth Siegelaub -- Artist novels: First published. Introduction to Espahor Ledet Ko Uluner! / Marie de Brugerolle; Espahor Ledet Ko Uluner! / Guy de Cointet; Introduction to Leopard / Jan Tumlir; Leopard / Matthew Brannon; Introduction to The Realms of the Unreal / Valérie Rousseau; The Story of Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion / Henry J. Darger -- Introduction to Double Suicide on Cherry Hill / Ralph McCarthy; Double Suicide on Cherry Hill / Yayoi Kusama -- Appendix: The history of the Book Lovers -- Artist novels bibliography -- Biographies.
Summary:
This publication is devoted to the phenomenon of the artist novel, and whether it can be considered to be a medium in its own right within the visual arts. Visual artists create different strategies to integrate their novels into their practice. Introducing traits that are particular to narrative literature into the visual arts implies the accentuation of some features over others, such as narration, fiction, identification, and the act of reading and its protracted engagement, as well as distribution in public space. An artists approach comes fundamentally from the visual arts. The creation of an artist novel doesn't differ from any other artwork. Both processes feed into each other as they evolve within the same body of works. Thanks to the contributions of a selected group of artists, writers, curators, and scholars this publication strives to demonstrate that literature, when treated by visual artists, can take place well beyond the space of the book.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.