From Head to Hand
Art and the Manual
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 February 2010
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780195391220
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 147x208x22 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 black and white halftone illustrations 0
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Short description:
In this concise and pithy study, art critic David Levi Strauss makes an argument for the continued relevance of art made by hand. A wide variety of media and individual examples are considered: the works of individual sculptors and painters; 'exotic' practitioners, such as the West coast Haida and the poet Cecilia Vicuna; curatorial figures and critical thinkers; and more. Strauss uses his analysis of individual works to lay bare the real distinctions that exist between seemingly contradictory concepts like labor and poetics, thought and action. He builds up an argument that reveals the powerful relation that exists between art-making and the present cultural and political ethos. Throughout, his larger claims are elaborated through a keen attention to the interplay between fact, response, perception, and thought-dynamics which are traced out with a remarkable philosophical rigor that is engaging and, above all, provocative.
MoreLong description:
In his third book, David Levi Strauss delves into the mysterious process whereby an image or idea is born in the mind and materialized through the hand in the expression of an artwork. How exactly does this exchange take place? It's a question so basic, an act so fundamental to art-making, that it has rarely received attention. It makes an ideal topic for Strauss, one of our best art critics, who has an exceptional ability to animate art's philosophical dimensions in clear, persuasive manner. Featuring over 25 illustrations, the book explores the works of sculptors including Martin Puryear, painters like Ron Gorchov, the work of contemporary Haida carvers, and many recent writers. He takes up Cecilia Vicuña's "memory of the fingers;" reframes the legacy of Leon Golub and Nancy Spero; and grapples with the handiwork of curators in staging exhibitions. Known primarily for his writings on photography and politics, Strauss focuses here on the least mediated arts--painting, sculpture, and writing--to recover art's most raw resource: the immediacy of the hand and the language it makes possible.
Strauss is an art critic of exceptional originality and depth. I can think of none in this field I would rank ahead of him in terms of his knowledge, his seriousness, his adventure, and the power of his writing.
Table of Contents:
I
From Hand to Head and Back Again: Some Lines for Martin Puryear
Sculpture & Sanctuary: Ursula Von Rydingsvard
Laborare est Orare
Reanimating Matter: Raoul Hague & Robert Frank
II
Beuys in Ireland
Between Two Worlds: The Haida Project
Relational, in the Sense of Operative: Community in the Holy Forest
The Memory of the Fingers
III
In Praise of Darkness
Why Move on from Illuminations that Haven't Yet Been Understood?
Her Plumbing & Her Bridges, in Sweet Assemblage
The Dissemination of Painting
IV
The Fighting Is a Dance, Too
Fallen Figures & Heads
Remembering Golub
Spero's Heart
V
Hosephat & the Wooden Shoes: Duncan & Delire
Radial Asymmetries: On Guy Davenport
The Bias of the World: Curating After Szeemann & Hopps
It Has to Be Danced to Be Known: Leo Steinberg
