This paper examines the impulse of artists to curate, the effects this has on practice, the notio... more This paper examines the impulse of artists to curate, the effects this has on practice, the notion of a fragmenting artistic practice, the the notion of curation as a form of digression. It periodically steps to one side of itself to imagine exhibitions that might be made, reflecting the ideas discussed.
This dissertation was an enquiry into the role of the 'artist' characters in the novels of Don De... more This dissertation was an enquiry into the role of the 'artist' characters in the novels of Don DeLillo and, through these figures, an enquiry into the notion of 'installing' one practice within another. The literary critique/analysis of DeLillo's fiction is counterbalanced by a reading of Thomas Crow's art-historical writing, especially his account of the work of Christopher Williams. A theory is developed to account for the kind of intertextuality at work in both these areas; an intertextuality that is less a tissue of reference and quotation and more a 'hosting' of other practices. This theory is tentatively proposed as 'porous modernism'. The dissertation then applies these thoughts in a sustained fashion to DeLillo's novel 'Libra', a historical work that makes a deep engagement with the US government's 'Warren Report'; a text that DeLillo considers Joycean in its scope and its polyphony. Finally, the dissertation has a visual, practical component - a set of typewritten replicas of DeLillo's pages of drafts from the writing of 'Libra', produced during a research period at the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin).
This paper examines the impulse of artists to curate, the effects this has on practice, the notio... more This paper examines the impulse of artists to curate, the effects this has on practice, the notion of a fragmenting artistic practice, the the notion of curation as a form of digression. It periodically steps to one side of itself to imagine exhibitions that might be made, reflecting the ideas discussed.
This dissertation was an enquiry into the role of the 'artist' characters in the novels of Don De... more This dissertation was an enquiry into the role of the 'artist' characters in the novels of Don DeLillo and, through these figures, an enquiry into the notion of 'installing' one practice within another. The literary critique/analysis of DeLillo's fiction is counterbalanced by a reading of Thomas Crow's art-historical writing, especially his account of the work of Christopher Williams. A theory is developed to account for the kind of intertextuality at work in both these areas; an intertextuality that is less a tissue of reference and quotation and more a 'hosting' of other practices. This theory is tentatively proposed as 'porous modernism'. The dissertation then applies these thoughts in a sustained fashion to DeLillo's novel 'Libra', a historical work that makes a deep engagement with the US government's 'Warren Report'; a text that DeLillo considers Joycean in its scope and its polyphony. Finally, the dissertation has a visual, practical component - a set of typewritten replicas of DeLillo's pages of drafts from the writing of 'Libra', produced during a research period at the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin).
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