Poets often have responded vitally to the art of their time, and
ever since Susan Stewart began writing about art in the early
1980s, her work has resonated with practicing artists, curators,
art historians, and art critics. Rooted in a broad and learned
range of references, Stewart's fresh and independent essays bridge
the fields of literature, aesthetics, and contemporary art.
Gathering most of Stewart's writing on contemporary art--long and
short pieces first published in small magazines, museum and gallery
publications, and edited collections--"The Open Studio" illuminates
work ranging from the installation art of Ann Hamilton to the
sculptures and watercolors of Thomas Schutte, the prints and
animations of William Kentridge to the films of Tacita Dean.
Stewart's essays are often the record of studio conversations with
living artists and curators, and of the afterlife of those
experiences in the solitude of her own study. Considering a wide
variety of art forms, Stewart finds pathbreaking ways to explore
them. Whether she is following central traditions of painting,
drawing, sculpture, film, photography, and printmaking or exploring
the less well-known realms of portrait miniatures, collecting
practices, doll-making, music boxes, and gardening, Stewart speaks
to the creative process in general and to the relation between art
and ethics.
"The Open Studio" will be read eagerly by scholars of art, poetry,
and visual theory; by historians interested in the links between
contemporary and classic literature and art; and by teachers,
students, and practitioners of the visual arts.
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