In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how changing concepts of artistic process have played a dominant role in the development of modern and contemporary art.This astute account of the ways in which process has been understood and addressed examines canonical artists such as Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, and De Kooning, as well as philosophers and art theorists such as Henri Focillon, R. G. Collingwood, and John Dewey. Placing “process art” within a larger historical context, Grant looks at the changing relations of the artist’s labor to traditional craftsmanship and industrial production, the status of art as a commodity, the increasing importance of the body and materiality in art making, and the nature and significance of the artist’s role in modern society. In doing so, she shows how process is an intrinsic part of aesthetic theory that connects to important contemporary debates about work, craft, and labor.Comprehensive and insightful, this synthetic study of process in modern and contemporary art reveals how artists’ explicit engagement with the concept fits into a broader narrative of the significance of art in the industrial and postindustrial world.
Produktinformation
Utgivningsdatum2018-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271077451
UtmärkelserNominated for Robert Motherwell Book Award 2017
Kim Grant is Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception.
ContentsIntroduction: Process as ValueChapter One: Conceptualizing the Artist’s Labor Prior to the 19th CenturyChapter Two: Art, Craft, and IndustrializationNineteenth Century Philosophical and Theoretical Views of the Artist’s ProcessThe Arts and Crafts Movement and Artistic ProcessPhotography and Artistic ProcessChapter Three: The Artist’s Process from the Academic to the ModernChapter Four: New Conceptions of the Artist’s ProcessThe Artist’s Labor in Time -- Series and StagesModern Art and Industrial Processes – PurismPhysicality and Matter – The Modern Artistic Process and the Artist’s MediumChapter Five: The Artist’s Process as a Means of Self-RealizationChapter Six: The Artist’s Process at Mid-CenturyArtistic Process and Amateur ArtistsChanges in Artists’ EducationChapter Seven: Art and Social ProcessesChapter Eight: Process ArtSystems Aesthetics, Series, and ConceptualismThe Artist’s Work and the Artist’s RoleProcess Art and CraftArtists’ Education and Process after 1960Chapter Nine: It’s All about the ProcessNotesBibliographyIndex
“This book is essential for libraries supporting graduate programs in art history or curatorial studies and is recommended for schools of art and design.”—Ian McDermott ARLIS/NA Reviews
