Dominic Rahtz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5688618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominic Rahtz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominic |
| FAMILY NAME | Rahtz |
| SIGNATURE | RAHTZ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University for the Creative Arts |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
This Is Not Art
This book makes no secret of writing from the perspective of an artist on the current practice of art. As its title suggests, the mode of address of This Is Not Art is essentially corrective, which is an unusual way for artists to talk to one another. Consequently, it sometimes comes across as somewhat didactic, although this is balanced by a sense of modesty that is identified with the autodidacticism of the artist. From the point of view of a c…
Indifference of Material in the Work of Carl Andre and Robert Smithson
This peer-reviewed article examines the different understandings of materiality and materialism at work in the art and writings of the American artists Carl Andre and Robert Smithson. In the case of Andre, it is argued that materiality was defined according to an indifference to form, but complicated by being figured through the mutually cancelling registers of art and industrial labour. Smithson, on the other hand, was critical of Andre's materi…
The Artist as Worker
Book review for 'Art workers: Radical practice in the Vietnam War era' by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009
Words to Be Looked At
Literality and Absence of Self in the Work of Carl Andre
This essay considers a short period in the early career of the Minimalist Carl Andre, in order to show that the literality arrived at in his work was not simply posited as an a priori characteristic of the materials he used, but was produced as a rhetorical effect through the negation of conventional artistic modes of expression through such procedures as dissociation and mechanical self-patterning. To support this reading, the essay also conside…
This Is Not Art
This book makes no secret of writing from the perspective of an artist on the current practice of art. As its title suggests, the mode of address of This Is Not Art is essentially corrective, which is an unusual way for artists to talk to one another. Consequently, it sometimes comes across as somewhat didactic, although this is balanced by a sense of modesty that is identified with the autodidacticism of the artist. From the point of view of a c…
Literality and Absence of Self in the Work of Carl Andre
This essay considers a short period in the early career of the Minimalist Carl Andre, in order to show that the literality arrived at in his work was not simply posited as an a priori characteristic of the materials he used, but was produced as a rhetorical effect through the negation of conventional artistic modes of expression through such procedures as dissociation and mechanical self-patterning. To support this reading, the essay also conside…
Words to Be Looked At
The Artist as Worker
Book review for 'Art workers: Radical practice in the Vietnam War era' by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009
Indifference of Material in the Work of Carl Andre and Robert Smithson
This peer-reviewed article examines the different understandings of materiality and materialism at work in the art and writings of the American artists Carl Andre and Robert Smithson. In the case of Andre, it is argued that materiality was defined according to an indifference to form, but complicated by being figured through the mutually cancelling registers of art and industrial labour. Smithson, on the other hand, was critical of Andre's materi…
This Is Not Art
This book makes no secret of writing from the perspective of an artist on the current practice of art. As its title suggests, the mode of address of This Is Not Art is essentially corrective, which is an unusual way for artists to talk to one another. Consequently, it sometimes comes across as somewhat didactic, although this is balanced by a sense of modesty that is identified with the autodidacticism of the artist. From the point of view of a c…
Art (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Performance art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Citation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Contemporary art (2 works)