An analysis of authorial drawings leads to larger critical questions on art and aesthetics.
Category Archive ‘Authors on Art’
01/18/13 Authors on Art: The Humanoid Narratives of John Casey
Brian Allen Carr, author of Vampire Conditions, reviews the work of Oakland artist John Casey
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12/23/12 Authors on Art: The Strange Logic and Humility of Amos Goldbaum
“I came across Amos Goldbaum’s work at a time in my life when my own world didn’t quite feel real.”
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09/20/12 Authors on Art: A Vivid Craving: Art and Writing Around Color
Amber Sparks explores color in visual art and the stories that arise from it.
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07/25/12 Authors on Art: Becoming Anonymous
Matt Bell joins us for this month’s Authors on Art, writing about an anonymous carved sculpture at the American Visionary Art Museum.
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04/11/12 Authors on Art: The Still Life
This week’s Authors on Art explores the resonance of the Still Life and its relationship with the written form.
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03/16/12 Authors on Art: A Preoccupation May be Shared: On Works by Eric Fischl
Many years ago while vacationing on the right coast of death I swallowed my timeline front to back.
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02/11/12 Authors on Art: I Heart Reality TV
In this unreal age of the hyperreal, will there will be a Hollywood sign in the background of our death?
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01/11/12 Authors on Art: Imagining the Artist/Poet Edward Mullany
Today BURNAWAY welcomes Mel Bosworth for this month’s Authors on Art, a series of creative responses by poets, novelists, and experimental writers.
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12/14/11 Authors on Art: Hieronymus Bosch and God in His Room of Money
Today BURNAWAY welcomes Robert Kloss for this month’s Authors on Art, a series of creative responses by poets, novelists, and experimental writers curated by Blake Butler. My mother introduced me to the works of Hieronymus Bosch back when I believed God lived in our church, where I thought He stuck mostly to a room filled [...]
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11/06/11 Authors on Art: What’s So Primitive About the Art of Mose Tolliver?
Today BURNAWAY welcomes Molly Brodak for this month’s Authors on Art, a series of creative responses by poets, novelists, and experimental writers curated by Blake Butler. Most mammalian species last about 2 million years, and so far we humans are nowhere close to even half of that. In our current form, we’ve been here for [...]
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10/09/11 Authors on Art: Notes on Beuys, Acconci, Judd, Barney
Today BURNAWAY welcomes Michael Bible for this month’s Authors on Art, a series of creative responses by poets, novelists, and experimental writers curated by Blake Butler. Joseph Beuys. Luftwaffe pilot gunned down in his Stuka dive-bomber over Crimea. Believed he survived because he wasn’t wearing his seat belt. He was sucked out the back of [...]
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09/02/11 Authors on Art: Cai Guo-Qiang’s Explosions/Orgasms
Today BURNAWAY welcomes Sarah Rose Etter for this month’s Authors on Art, a series of creative responses by poets, novelists, and experimental writers curated by Blake Butler.
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08/05/11 Authors on Art: William Eggleston’s Inhospitable South
Today BURNAWAY welcomes Ryan Ridge for this month’s Authors on Art, a series of creative responses by poets, novelists, and experimental writers curated by Blake Butler.
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karley: nice!
Jared: Excited for the Bowman collection. She is someone to keep an eye on
ruth: What do you do with difficult lines of memory? Fold them into a san
Beth Lilly: I know! That's exactly the type of work I had in mind with the call f
Jason Francisco: Davis' bulletin boards seem to me actually to be photographs themselve