Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art

Julius, Chloe; Green, Michael; Holman, Matthew

Abstract

Showcasing new scholarship by emerging and established art historians, Cases of Citation tracks a history of artists who incorporated literature into their work. In doing so, this collection investigates why literary citation emerged as a viable and urgent strategy in art made during and after the 1960s, and explores how we can account for such citational practices in contemporary scholarship. By spotlighting new voices in the field of art history, this book makes a significant, topical and, above all, current contribution to a fast-growing field of inquiry.

Structured as a series of in-depth case studies, the essays that form this volume generate their own specific questions about the relationship between art and literature through the analysis of a single artwork. The collection covers a diverse group of artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including David Wojnarowicz, Marcel Broodthaers, Lis Rhodes, Romare Bearden and Silvia Kolbowski. Cited authors range from Oscar Wilde to Frank O’Hara, Mary Shelley to Jean Genet. And together, the artworks and cited texts are approached from various critical angles, with each author questioning and complicating the ways in which we can ‘read’ textual citations in art.

The book concludes with a richly illustrated conversation between the editors and the pioneering feminist artist Elaine Reichek, whose lifelong engagement with text serves as a foundational art historical touchstone for the collection as a whole.

Citation

Julius, C., Green, M., & Holman, M. (2024). M. Green, & M. Holman (Eds.). Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art. Manchester University Press

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Online Publication Date: Sep 25, 2024
• Publication Date: Sep 24, 2024
• Deposit Date: Oct 6, 2023
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• ISBN: 9781526173188
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/25681829
• Contract Date: Feb 15, 2024