Esner, Rachel
The contributors to 'Hiding Making - Showing Creation. The Studio from Turner to Tacita Dean' consider the dichotomy between conceptual and material aspects of art production. Rachel Esner is assistant professor in Art History.
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 and what they do there. 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. The essays also explore the studio as a form of inspiration, meaning, function, and medium, from the nineteenth century up to the present.
Hiding Making - Showing Creation. The Studio from Turner to Tacita Dean
- Rachel Esner, Sandra Kisters, Ann-Sophie Lehmann
- Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013
- ISBN 978 90 89 64507 4