What is research in the visual arts? : obsession, archive, encounter / edited by Michael Ann Holly and Marquard Smith

Author(s): Smith, Marquard | Holly, Michael Ann

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Main Title
What is research in the visual arts? : obsession, archive, encounter
Author(s)
Holly, Michael Ann
Smith, Marquard
Publisher
Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2008
Collation
xxvi, 215 p. : b/w. ill.
24 cm.
Series Title
Clark studies in the visual arts
ISBN
9780300134131
Dewey Class
707.2
Contents
Introduction: Why "What Is Research in the Visual Arts?: Obsession, Archive, Encounter"? / Marquard Smith -- Part 1 Encounters and Obsessions -- What Is Research in Art History, Anyway? / Michael Ann Holly -- Seeing Ghosts: The Turn of the Screw and Art History / Alexander Nemerov -- Dead Stock: The Researcher as Collector of Failed Goods / Celeste Olalquiaga -- The Work of Research: Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through / Joanne Morra -- Archival Obsessions and Obsessive Archives / Ernst van Alphen -- Our Monstrous Double: The Dream of Research in "Outsider Art History" / Marc Gotlieb -- Part 2 The World and the Archive -- Factory of Facts: Research as Obsession with the Scent of History / Serge Guilbaut -- The Artwork, the Archive, and the Living Moment / Alex Potts -- Cut the Bean: Curiosity and Research in the Pages of Cabinet Magazine / Sina Najafi -- The Scholar and the Fan / Reva Wolf -- The Abu Ghraib Archive / W.J.T. Mitchell -- The World Archive and Universal Research / Akira Mizuta Lippit -- Research Practice: New Words on Cold Cases / Mieke Bal.
Language
English
Subject
Art -- Research -- Congresses.
BRN
4460

Notes

  • "This publication is based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference 'What is Research in the Visual Arts?: Obsession, Archive, Encounter' held 27 and 28 April 2007 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts"--T.p. verso.

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