Critical Proximity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2641982 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Simon (0000-0001-5655-5150, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/csr.v16i2.1685 |
| OpenAlex | W4239265780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay considers how written language frames visual objects. Drawing on Michel Foucault's response to Raymond Roussel's obsessive description, the essay proposes a model of criticism where description might press up against its objects. This critical closeness is then mapped across the conceptual art practice and art criticism of Ian Burn. Burn attends to the differences between seeing and reading, and considers the conditions which frame how we look at images, including how we look at, and through words. The essay goes on to consider Meaghan Morris's writing on Lynn Silverman's photographs. Both Morris and Burn offer an alternative to a parasitic model of criticism and enact a patient way of looking across and through visual landscapes
Aesthetics · Art · Art criticism · Art history · Closeness · Critical reading · Criticism · Epistemology · Frame (networking · Linguistics · Literature · Performance art · Reading (process · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |