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Informationen zum Autor Gavin Butt teaches in the Unit of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His research interests encompass performance and performativity in the visual arts; queer theory; and queer cultures and their histories. He is the author of a book on gossip and homosexuality entitled Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the American Art World 1948-1963 (2005). Klappentext It has recently become apparent that criticism is in trouble. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become institutionally routine. This book explores contemporary approaches that have sought to renew criticism's energies in the wake of a theatrical turn in recent visual arts practice and the emergence of a performative arts writing over the past decade or so. Issues addressed include the performing of art's histories; the consequences for criticism of embracing boredom, distraction, and other "queer" forms of (in)attention; and the importance of exploring writerly process in responding to aesthetic experience. Bringing together newly commissioned work from the fields of art history, performance studies, and visual culture with the writings of contemporary artists, After Criticism provides a set of experimental essays that demonstrate how the critical might live on as a vital and efficacious force within contemporary culture. Zusammenfassung "Though it seems contradictory to write words of praise for a book that deeply interrogates the marketability of praiseful language (in the guise of art criticism)! Gavin Butta s collection deserves them. Framed by Butta s astute introduction! these performative essays pulse with vitality. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Series Editor's Preface xi Introduction: The Paradoxes of Criticism 1 Gavin Butt Part I Performing Art's Histories 21 1 Solo Solo Solo 23 Rebecca Schneider 2 Binding to Another's Wound: Of Weddings and Witness 48 Jane Blocker 3 This is I 65 Niru Ratnam Part II Distracted and Bored: The Critic Looks Elsewhere 79 4 The Trouble with Men, or, Sex, Boredom, and the Work of Vaginal Davis 81 Jennifer Doyle 5 Utopia's Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System 101 José Esteban Muñoz 6 Looking Away: Participations in Visual Culture 117 Irit Rogoff Part III Critical Response/Performative Process 135 7 Itinerant Improvisations: From "My Favorite Things" to an "agency of night" 137 John Seth 8 The Experience of Art as a Living Through of Language 156 Kate Love 9 A Transparent Lecture 176 Matthew Goulish Selected Bibliography 207 compiled by Andrew Walby Index 212 ...
