Book Launch | Theorising the Artist Interview

Theorising the Artist Interview, edited by Lucia Farinati and Jennifer Thatcher.

Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through interviews and sought to establish a critical voice for themselves. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, oral history, and historiography.

In preparation for this volume, Lucia and Jennifer convened two seminars through BAN: The Artist Interview in Britain and The Politics and Ethics of Interview Transcription.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Part 1 History and Historiography of the Artist Interview
• The History of the Artist Interview: Conventions, Conditions, Contexts, Collaboration Reva Wolf
• Re Stor(y)ing the Self Rebecca Fortnum and Hester Westley
• Articulating Artworks: On the Theory and Practice of Oral History in Art Conservation Sanneke Stigter
• Part 2 Subverting the Biographical Model
• The Voice of the Artists: Notes about Vasari’s Lives and Early Modern Sources Maddalena Spagnolo
• As A Possibility of an Encounter: A Performative Reading of Autoritratto (Self Portrait) by Carla Lonzi Lucia Farinati
• Herstory or Mine? Writing Feminist Histories of Art with Self Mythologies in Mind Zsofi Valyi Nagy
• Part 3 Interviews as Art Practice
• I Prefer Talkers: Andy Warhol and His Philosophy Jean Wainwright
• Audio Arts: A Recorded Space for Contemporary Art and Artists Lucia Farinati
• Face to Face: Interviews as Practice in the Work of Stephen Sutcliffe Susannah Thompson
• Part 4 Materiality and Technology
• New Ways of Speaking: The First Artist Interviews on BBC Radio Jennifer Thatcher
• Interview as Action/Archive: The Role of Televised Reportage in Contemporary Visual Art in the Turkish Cypriot Community Esra Plumer Bardak
• The Pleasures of the Transcript: Why Transcription of Artist Interviews Matters Jennifer Thatcher

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