tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990099773805921773.post725313720017850081..comments2023-09-09T08:48:46.303-06:00Comments on What is Interesting Writing in Art History?: Chapter 7jamesprestonelkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02480095376765987733noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990099773805921773.post-11822858859213257662016-04-12T05:52:09.811-06:002016-04-12T05:52:09.811-06:00I'm writing this months after bookmarking it, ...I'm writing this months after bookmarking it, as a 'maker' and someone interested in critical thinking, who came to art/ art history late in life. Actually what I like about you *and* TJC is that your writing lives in the larger world, while having deep knowledge of the narrow specifics of visual culture or art history or whatever (you can see I don't). Like Raymond Williams for Eng Lit. <br />I bought and kind-of read A Sight of Death (like one has to re-read Farewell to an Idea) because of your shared central idea of the importance of the layered (material, looking, thinking). So overhearing a conversation between you and that idea is great - illuminating, actually, in the same way: a larger context, not making it any less... caryshttp://carysdavies.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990099773805921773.post-28082252393438376272014-06-29T07:56:07.960-06:002014-06-29T07:56:07.960-06:00Typical Western scholar drama: having already suff...Typical Western scholar drama: having already sufficient theoretical background to write on any given subject but being incapable, out of the same reasons, to find new and interesting subjects. Good thing I live and write art history in a post-communist country, there's always something intresting to write about. "Writing interestingly' seems to be a self-consuming drive; as almost every contemporary art historian tried to shape up new subjects or, better yet, new methods, "writing interestingly" has become a general method and, therefore, unintersting. This is just an outside view, of someone who every day leafs through the latest Western volumes, always satisfied with what he finds, but never surprised, as he knows that everything might have already been written off. Although a reader, I am not part of your regular public, so my opinion might be irrelevant. This is why I think I should stop.<br /><br />Good luck with your project,<br /><br />R. (art historian and graphic artist)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990099773805921773.post-12564521088479069002014-02-07T12:15:20.676-06:002014-02-07T12:15:20.676-06:00What a wonderfully inventive way to use blogger. ...What a wonderfully inventive way to use blogger. Also love the 'hidden' message to Tim (not sure how 'hidden' anything is on the internet these days...) Please say hello to Margaret; I'd love to get in touch.<br /><br />All best<br />Nina (we met in Atlanta, I think, and at some subsequent AAH, and Margaret gave a fabulous paper in my session in Bristol ages ago)Picturetalk321https://www.blogger.com/profile/00140843071368851486noreply@blogger.com