Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art
By (Author) Chlo Julius
Edited by Michael Green
Edited by Matthew Holman
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
1st October 2024
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
709
Hardback
208
Width 170mm, Height 240mm, Spine 17mm
640g
Cases of citation presents a history of artists who incorporated literary references into their work from the 1960s onwards.
Through a series of object-focused chapters that each take up a singular case of citation, the collection considers how literary citation emerged as a viable and urgent strategy for artists during this period. It surveys eleven artworks by a diverse group of artists including David Wojnarowicz, Lis Rhodes, Romare Bearden and Silvia Kolbowski whose citations draw on works as varied as Karl Marxs Das Kapital and Mary Shelleys Frankenstein.
The book also features an interview with pioneering feminist artist Elaine Reichek that discusses her career-long commitment to working with text. Together, the artworks and cited texts are approached from various critical angles, with each author questioning and complicating the ways in which we can read textual citations in art.
Chlo Julius is a Teaching Associate in History of Art at the University of Nottingham
Michael Green is an independent scholar and works in arts publishing
Matthew Holman is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire