Out now: Hiding Making - Showing Creation
The studio from Turner to Tacita Dean
By Rachel Esner, Sandra Kisters, Ann-Sophie Lehmann.
Examining the complex relationship between process, product, artistic identity, and the artist’s studio—in all its various manifestations—the contributors to this volume consider the dichotomy between conceptual and material aspects of art production.
Artists at work
The artist, at least according to Honoré de Balzac, is at work when he seems to be at rest; his labor is not labor but repose. This observation provides a model for modern artists and their relationship to both their place of work—the studio—and what they do there. The essays in Hiding Making - Showing Creation also explore the studio as a form of inspiration, meaning, function, and medium, from the nineteenth century up to the present.
Contributors
Beatrice von Bismarck; Eric de Bruyn; Petra Chu; Wouter Davidts; Terry van Druten; Mayken Jonkman; Matthias Krüger; Maarten Liefooghe; Matthias Noell; Frank Reijnders; Sarah de Rijcke; and Monika Wagner.
Dr. Rachel Esner is Assistant Professor in Art of the Modern Period at the UvA.