Sarah Thornton,
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.
ISBN: 039306722X DDC: 709.05 LCC: N8600 Edition: (hardcover)
retro-modernist
pre-nostalgia
"His haircut is so normal it defies description" (of an auctioneer)
p.51 "you are materialising - taking something from the inside and putting it out in to the world so that your can be relieved of it." Leslie Dick
p. 53 "any artist whose work fails to display some conceptual rigour is little more than a pretender, illustrator or designer." Leslie Dick
p. 54 "Dave Hickey "Group crits... "are social occasions that reinforce the norm. They impose a standardised discourse. They privilege unfinished incompetent art... I don't care about an artist's intentions. I care if the work looks right it might have some consequences."
p.54 Mary Kelly "Never go to the wall text. Never ask the artist. Learn to read the work." Works of art produce arguments. Artists don't fully understand what they've made. "it's about being open to the possibility of what you could know."
