What Is Research in the Visual Arts? : Obsession, Archive, Encounter

by Edited by Michael Ann Holly and Marquard Smith

• ISBN13: 9780300134131
• ISBN10: 0300134134
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2009-01-13
• Publisher: Clark Art Inst

Summary

With essays by Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Marc Gotlieb, Serge Guilbaut, Michael Ann Holly, Akira Mizuta Lippit, W. J. T. Mitchell, Joanne Morra, Sina Najafi, Alexander Nemerov, Celeste Olalquiaga, Alex Potts, and Reva Wolf

Author Biography

Michael Ann Holly is director of the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Marquard Smith is course director for the master’s program in art and design history at Kingston University, London, and editor-in-chief of the journal of visual culture.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: Why "What Is Research in the Visual Arts?: Obsession, Archive, Encounter"?	p. x
Encounters and Obsessions
What Is Research in Art History, Anyway?	p. 3
Seeing Ghosts: The Turn of the Screw and Art History	p. 13
Dead Stock: The Researcher as Collector of Failed Goods	p. 33
The Work of Research: Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through	p. 47
Archival Obsessions and Obsessive Archives	p. 65
Our Monstrous Double: The Dream of Research in "Outsider Art History"	p. 85
The World and the Archive
Factory of Facts: Research as Obsession with the Scent of History	p. 105
The Artwork, the Archive, and the Living Moment	p. 119
Cut the Bean: Curiosity and Research in the Pages of Cabinet Magazine	p. 138
The Scholar and the Fan	p. 158
The Abu Ghraib Archive	p. 168
The World Archive and Universal Research	p. 183
Research Practice: New Words on Cold Cases	p. 196
Contributors	p. 213
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