A
Question of Authorship
by
Sarah Bennett
The following issues relating to authorship will be discussed
with examples:
• Historical concepts of the author
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The rise of the artistic identity (author) in the European context
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The author and modernism: notions of identity, authenticity,
originality and reproduction
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Authorial responsibility (Benjamin)
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Breaking with traditions of authorship
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Subversion of the author in postmodernism: collaborative practices,
appropriation, feminism
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Introducing the idea of the death of the author and semantic
autonomy: Barthes, Derrida and Foucault (poststructuralism)
Slides
Brancacci
Chapel, Florence x 6
Self Portrait
Self Portrait
Self Portrait with horn
Piero Manzoni signing a model
Artist's shit
No. 26A
Duration Piece No 7
I like America and America likes me
Goddess I
Vietnamese Woman
After Kandinsky
After Rodchenko
The Fountain
Sleeping Muse
Buddha
French Coach Couple
World
Ivrea
The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist
The Blind x 3
Betaville
Untitled
Self |
Masaccio, Masolino circa 1424 - 28
Lippi circa 1481- 82
Filippino Lippi
Pablo Picasso 1907
Max Beckmann 1938
Piero Manzoni 1961
Piero Manzoni
Jackson Pollock 1948
Douglas Huebler 1973
Joseph Beuys 1974
Nancy Spero 1985
Nancy Spero 1985
Sherry Levine 1985
Sherry Levine 1987
Marcel Duchamp 1917
Constantin Brancusi circa 1920
Sherry Levine 1996
Jeff Koons 1986
Gilbert and George 1994
Langlands and Bell 1991
Guerrilla Girls 1987
Sophie Calle 1989
Angela Bulloch 1994
Haim Steinbach 1985
Marc Quinn 1991 |
References:
Barthes, R (1977) 'Image, Music, Text' (Translator - Heath,
S) London: Fontana p. 142
Benjamin, W (1936) (1992) 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction'; in Harrison and Wood (eds) 'Art in Theory 1900-1990:
an anthology of changing ideas Oxford: Blackwell pp. 512-520
Benjamin, W (1934) (1992) 'The Author as Producer' in Harrison
and Wood (eds) Art in Theory 1900-1990: an anthology of changing
ideas', Oxford: Blackwell pp. 483-489
Burke, S (1992) 'The Death and Return of the Author: criticism
and and subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida', Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press
Burke, S (Ed.) (1995) 'Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern,
A Reader', Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd.
Edgar, A and Sedgwick, P (Eds) 'Key Concepts in Cultural Theory',
London and NY: Routledge
Foucault, M (1969) (1992) 'What Is an Author?' in Harrison and
Wood (eds) 'Art in Theory 1900-1990: an anthology of changing
ideas', Oxford: Blackwell pp. 923 -928
Goldstein, A and Rorimer, A (eds) (1995) 'Reconsidering the
Object of Art: 1965 - 75', London and Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press
Kelly, O (1984) 'Creativity and Authorship' in 'Community, Art
and the State', London: Comedia
Zurbrugg, N (Ed.)(1997) 'Jean Baudrillard: Art and Artefact',
London: Sage
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For individual artists please use libertas and
art indexes for your research
Please
send further links/references for inclusion to: p1ramsay@plymouth.ac.uk
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