Description
Book SynopsisA study of the concept of artistic process in the Western tradition of the visual arts. Focuses on modern and contemporary art and analyzes the development of process as a discourse that increasingly locates the primary value of art in the artist’s creative labor.
Trade Review“This book is essential for libraries supporting graduate programs in art history or curatorial studies and is recommended for schools of art and design.”
—Ian McDermott ARLIS/NA Reviews
“This is an elegant, clear text that will serve as an excellent primer for anyone interested in the histories of thinking about making and the artistic process. Art students as well as students of aesthetics and history of art will benefit from its careful, thoughtful synthesis of an array of complex, foundational texts pertaining to the theme of ‘process’ and making.”
—Jo Applin,author of Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field
“All About Process brings a wealth of art-historical knowledge and perceptive theoretical insight to analyze the crucial but elusive concept of artistic process and makes a powerful argument for its importance, not simply as an indispensable tool for creating more interesting art objects but as part of the essence of art itself. Kim Grant’s book provides a welcome resource for resisting the forces of commodification while closing the gap between art and life.”
—Richard Shusterman,author of Thinking Through the Body: Essays in Somaesthetics
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Process as Value
Chapter One: Conceptualizing the Artist’s Labor Prior to the 19th Century
Chapter Two: Art, Craft, and Industrialization
Nineteenth Century Philosophical and Theoretical Views of the Artist’s Process
The Arts and Crafts Movement and Artistic Process
Photography and Artistic Process
Chapter Three: The Artist’s Process from the Academic to the Modern
Chapter Four: New Conceptions of the Artist’s Process
The Artist’s Labor in Time -- Series and Stages
Modern Art and Industrial Processes – Purism
Physicality and Matter – The Modern Artistic Process and the Artist’s Medium
Chapter Five: The Artist’s Process as a Means of Self-Realization
Chapter Six: The Artist’s Process at Mid-Century
Artistic Process and Amateur Artists
Changes in Artists’ Education
Chapter Seven: Art and Social Processes
Chapter Eight: Process Art
Systems Aesthetics, Series, and Conceptualism
The Artist’s Work and the Artist’s Role
Process Art and Craft
Artists’ Education and Process after 1960
Chapter Nine: It’s All about the Process
Notes
Bibliography
Index
