Adventures in Art : Selected Writings on Art 1990-2010 - Hardcover

Sue Hubbard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1906967210 ISBN 13: 9781906967215

Publisher: Other Criteria, 2010

Synopsis

"On Writing Art (1990 - 2010)" draws together 60 of Sue Hubbard's essays on contemporary and modern art and spans the last 20 years of her career. A diverse writer, Hubbard's collected essays are part biographical, part lyrical reviews of today's program of modern art in Britain and provide an honest account of the diversities, originalities, and disappointments found there. Thick with anecdotes and quotes from historians, artists, and commentators, Hubbard's writing guides the reader through specific exhibitions as well as the creative lives of her subjects, and provides a context replete with description and art historical value. Her knowledge is incisive and reflective and, in many retrospective cases, reads like a modern obituary. Without dictating, her writing celebrates the lives and contributions of artistic figures from Federico Garcia Lorca and Sam Taylor-Wood to Marc Quinn and Cy Twombly.Other artists discussed: Richard LongDiane ArbusAnnette MessagerMark RothkoFrancis BaconGustav KlimtAntony GormleyAndry GoldsworthyDamien Hirst

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Review:

Sue Hubbard s Adventures in Art fluently archives her very impressive twenty year trajectory of critical writing within the art world, transporting us into a multiplicity of artists lives and methodologies, and forming a portrait of contemporary art today. Nothing is left untouched or unconsidered. These selected writings narrate her discovery of the meaning of art and provide a useful tool of understanding for readers. --Hans Ulrich Obrist

Her pages about Rothko are the best I ve read about that extraordinary painter. She honours Sam Beckett as few others are able to do. We follow Sue Hubbard because she has the precision, the respect for words and pain, of a poet. We follow her because (as she writes in one of her poems) What if... if one night swimming in the freezing water, you look down to find the bottom littered with stars. --John Berger

This is a really insightful book! Sue Hubbard has been looking at contemporary and modern art for twenty years: her keen poet s eye leads her to perceive things not always evident to the rest of us. Most gratifyingly she writes a pleasing, lucid prose which makes complex ideas accessible and leaves us enriched by the clarity of her values. These essays tackle a swathe of all that has been happening in painting and sculpture over recent decades. Their range is truly impressive: from Christian Boltanski to Helen Chadwick, from Anselm Kiefer to Jane and Louise Wilson. Along the way Hubbard s own taste and judgement has evolved giving us a vivid sense of what these turbulent creative times have been like. Their cumulative effect is to indicate the direction modern art is taking and help us grapple with its meaning. --Joan Bakewell

About the Author:

Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, fiction writer and art critic. For ten years she regularly wrote on contemporary art for Time Out, moving on to The Independent on Sunday, The Independent and The New Statesman. She has also contributed to Contemporary, Tate, Third Text, the RA Magazine, as well as for many catalogue essays on leading artists. Twice winner of the London Writers competition, Hubbard was the Poetry Society's first-ever Public Art Poet, and in 2006 she was awarded a major Arts Council Literary Award. She has published several collections of poems, including Everything Begins with the Skin and Ghost Station . Her latest collection of short stories is Rothko's Red and Other Stories . Depth of Field , her first novel, was published in 2000 and described by John Berger as a remarkable first novel. Having been a tutor at Lumb Bank for the Arvon Foundation she teaches and lectures at a number of major art schools.

About this edition

• Publisher: Other Criteria
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1906967210
• ISBN 13: 9781906967215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Sue Hubbard