The Lure Of The Object

by Edited by Stephen Melville

• ISBN13: 9780300103373
• ISBN10: 0300103379
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-02-13
• Publisher: Clark Art Inst

Summary

With essays by Emily Apter, George Baker, Malcolm Baker, John Brewer, Martha Buskirk, Margaret Iversen, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Karen Lang, Mark A. Meadow, Helen Molesworth, Marcia Pointon, Christian Scheidemann, Edward J. Sullivan, and Martha Ward

Author Biography

Stephen Melville is professor of the history of art at The Ohio State University, specializing in contemporary art, theory, and historiography. He has served as resident faculty at the Getty Summer Institute in Visual and Cultural Studies and as co-curator of As Painting: Division and Displacement, a major exhibition of contemporary painting.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Stephen Melville
Part One: Commerce and Context
The Lure of Leonardo	3	(12)
John Brewer
Dan Graham Inc. and the Fetish of Self-Property	15	(24)
Emily Apter
Quiccheberg and the Copious Object: Wenzel Jamnitzer's Silver Writing Box	39	(20)
Mark A. Meadow
Naturalezas Mexicanas: Objects as Cultural Signifiers in Mexican Art, c. 1760--1875	59	(16)
Edward J. Sullivan
Part Two: After the Object
Material as Language in Contemporary Art	75	(11)
Christian Scheidemann
Art in the Age of Visual Culture: France in the 1930s	86	(15)
Martha Ward
Photography's Expanded Field	101	(18)
George Baker
Part Three: Objectivities
Some Object Histories and the Materiality of the Sculptural Object	119	(16)
Malcolm Baker
Encountering the Object	135	(22)
Karen Lang
The Object as Subject	157	(24)
Ewa Lajer Burcharth
Part Four: Lost and Found
The Surrealist Situation of the Photographed Object	181	(12)
Margaret Iversen
Eros and the Readymade	193	(10)
Helen Molesworth
Part Five: Conference Responses
Responding to Allure	203	(4)
Martha Buskirk
The Lure of the Object	207	(5)
Marcia Pointon
Afterword	212	(3)
Stephen Melville
Contributors	215