ArtSelector: Issue 5 - Text in Art
Go to any art fair, degree show, or biennale, and you'll be greeted by as many words as you will pictures. Furthermore, we are surrounded by the ever expanding presence of Street Art, and then, of course, there is the confessional text, in neon lights, appliquéd blankets, back-to-front monoprints, and handwritten letters and poems, as showcased in magnificent form in the current Tracey Emin retrospective at the Hayward. Read More >
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Article:
Lorem Ipsum: The Role of Text in Art
When did text start to infiltrate the previously aesthetically oriented realm of the visual arts? In her article Karen Gardner takes a look back over the previous century and provides an overview of some of the keystones in this development.
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Interview:
Cedar Lewisohn
Cedar Lewisohn is an artist, curator, writer and publisher. In this interview with Anna McNay, he discusses the histories of Street Art and Graffiti, attempting to draw a distinction between the two, and also explores their political aspects.
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Article:
The Curious Case of Bob and Roberta Smith
Ed Winters takes a critical look at the use of text in Conceptual Art, an anti-Greenbergian, anti-aesthetic means of expression. Bringing this up-to-date, he pillories Bob and Roberta Smith for being merely 'decoratively conceptual'.
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Review:
Leo Fitzmaurice: You try to tell me but I never listen
Rodolph de Salis takes a trip to Walsall to sample the delights of some local graffiti, and to look, contrastingly, at the absence of text where it is to be expected, in the newly commissioned works by Leo Fitzmaurice.
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Article:
Political Accents: Jenny Holzer's Projections
Jenny Holzer might be variously labeled as artist, social commentator or even street artist, but, however you view her, she is arguably one of the most important contemporary conceptual and text-based artists.
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Review:
Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want
'Whether you notice it or not on your way in, the point is made that Emin's work is always contextualised by her words, wrapped in narrative, embedded in the multiple discourses that have shaped visitors' expectations and have arguably brought them to the show.'
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Selected:
Ellen Bell
Our selected ArtSelector artist this month is Ellen Bell – seemingly quite the opposite of Tracey Emin, but nonetheless not shy of the odd 'dirty word'..
Art Deadline
Discerning Eye
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition is a show of small works independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artist, two collectors and two critics. Work is selected from open submission and with works by artists invited by the individual selectors.
Each section is hung separately to give each its own distinctive identity.
2011 Selectors are:
Brian Sewell, Art Critic. Ossian Ward, Visual Arts Editor, Time Out, London.
John Pluthero, Chairman of Cable & Wireless Worldwide and Founder of abstract critical. John Deston, Gallery Manager, The Mall Galleries, London.
Artists Eileen Cooper RA & Lisa Wright.
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