What’s the point of it? A discussion on writing on art
Thu 5 Dec 2024 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Fruitmarket, EH1 1DF
Description
Join us for the launch of Words and Things: celebrating fifty years of writing on art at Fruitmarket. In this book art historical scholarship by the world's leading thinkers on art is brought together with artists' writings and in-conversations, punctuated by poems and short stories.
Contributors to the book discuss the past and the future of writing about and alongside art and the relationship between art and language. Briony Fer (University College London), David Hopkins (University of Glasgow) and author James Robertson in conversation with Elizabeth McLean (Deputy Director and Head of Publishing, Fruitmarket) and Ruth Bretherick (Research and Public Engagement Curator, Fruitmarket).
Briony Fer is Professor of History of Art at University College London, specialising in sculpture and drawing made since the 1960s. She has curated numerous shows at Fruitmarket including Eva Hesse: Studiowork (2009), Gabriel Orozco: Thinking in Circles (2013) and Leonor Antunes: the apparent length of a floor area (2023). Aside from her writing on these exhibitions, she has also written for Fruitmarket publications on the work of Karla Black, and William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland.
David Hopkins is an art historian and curator. He is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on dada, surrealism and their legacies in contemporary artistic practice. He has curated two research-led exhibitions for Fruitmarket: Dada’s Boys: Identity and Play in Contemporary Art (2006) and Childish Things (2010), both of which were accompanied by major publications.
James Robertson is a poet, novelist, short story writer and editor who writes in English and Scots. He has published seven highly acclaimed novels: The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack, And the Land Lay Still, The Professor of Truth, and To Be Continued … and News of the Dead. He also runs an independent publishing company called Kettillonia, and is a co-founder and general editor of the Scots language imprint Itchy Coo (which produces books in Scots for children and young people).
Location
Fruitmarket, EH1 1DF