Synopsis
It is widely assumed that everyone is interdisciplinary nowadays, that we all work in the intersections of specialised disciplines. But if being flexible, multi-skilled and polymathic are the prerequisites to survival in todays world, why do educators and art marketeers still find it imperative to maintain conditions of production that advocate specialist forms? The aim of this new anthology in the Occasional Table series is to critically reflect upon the role of specialism in art and society and to understand better how the claim of those who seek to transcend the parameters of specialisation contrasts to others who maintain that deep levels of achievement can only be attained within highly focused methods and forms.
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Should the artist aspire to be the Universal Man or Woman of the Italian Renaissance, or bow to the division of labor like those painters of the Dutch Golden age who specialised in cows, or peeled lemons, or crafty swindlers picking pockets? But then if everyone is an artist, as Joseph Beuys liked to say, then isn t it an impudent usurpation to lay particular claim to the label 'artist' at all? No definitive answers are in the cards, but the clash of opinions is lively in this eye-opening set of essays and conversations by a broad range of art makers, writers, academics and other interested parties. By the time you have read all of them you may find yourself both more expert and more of a generalist, which is why I recommend reading this book with one of my favorite records playing softly in the background; the 2005 comeback album by the great Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab, 'Specialist in All Styles'. --Barry Schwabsky
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Black cloth, illustration mounted to boards, unlettered spine; 4to; approx. pp. 40, poems and illustrations throughout, including tipped-on material, demonstrating a variety of paper specimens and printing techniques. Number 90 from a limited edition of 201 copies, signed by the artist and stamped with the completion date. Boards bumped and scuffed. Internally clean. A scarce artist's book. David Blamey was born in London in 1961. He studied at the Royal College of Art where he graduated in 1985. During the early 1990s he showed at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery in London and established the independent publishing imprint Open Editions as a vehicle for collaborations between artists, writers and academics from a variety of parallel and interconnecting fields. During this period he curated the international touring exhibitions Work & Turnand Looking At Words: Reading Pictures, surveys of artists' publishing that traced the development of the form from the 1970s to the present day. Since the late 90s he has shown at a number of galleries run by artists' collectives Arthur R. Rose in London, Glass Box in Paris and Four in Dublin as well as exhibiting at established venues such as Zachéta National Gallery, Warsaw and Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia. For over twenty years he has regularly travelled and carried out research in India "the most real place on earth" and in 2006 he was awarded the Arts Council of England's Prayog International Artist Fellowship and was a guest contributor to the Experimenta 2007 festival in Bangalore and Mumbai. His two edited cultural studies books are, Here, There, Elsewhere: Dialogues On Location and Mobility (2002) and Living Pictures: Perspectives On The Film Poster In India (2005), both published by Open Editions. He is the founder and director of the critical forum programme in the School of Communication at the RCA and has written in other critical contexts, most recently forDesign and Art (2007), an anthology of writing about the historical interconnections between art and design, edited by Alex Coles and published by the Whitechapel and MIT Press. Seller Inventory # D11660