{"product_id":"poetics-and-place-the-architecture-of-sign-subjects-and-site","title":"Poetics and Place","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do artworks ‘speak’, and how do we ‘listen’\u003cbr\u003eand respond? These questions underlie the\u003cbr\u003einvestigation here of Roni Horn’s Pair Object\u003cbr\u003eIII: For Two Rooms, Emily Dickinson’s later\u003cbr\u003emanuscripts, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Passages\u003cbr\u003ePaysages, Fiona Templeton’s Cells of Release and\u003cbr\u003eJenny Holzer’s Lustmord. The tenets of critical\u003cbr\u003eperformance, art-writing and site-writing\u003cbr\u003einform the critical method used in Poetics\u003cbr\u003eand Place. Each chapter is dedicated to one of\u003cbr\u003ethese five artworks, and is arranged in order\u003cbr\u003eto fulfil three main objectives: to understand\u003cbr\u003ehow the artworks generate meaning through a\u003cbr\u003ematerial poetics in relation to place; to develop\u003cbr\u003ea critical methodology for engaging with them;\u003cbr\u003eand to investigate their ethical potential and\u003cbr\u003epolitical imperative. All of this, ultimately,\u003cbr\u003efacilitates the development of a triadic relation\u003cbr\u003ebetween theoretical concepts of sign, subject\u003cbr\u003eand site at the crossover between poetry,\u003cbr\u003eart and spatial practices. This extends each\u003cbr\u003eartwork beyond the dyad of a critical encounter\u003cbr\u003ein order to offer – and allow others to grasp\u003cbr\u003e– an appreciation of how the artwork figures\u003cbr\u003emeaningfully, as well as configures meaning,\u003cbr\u003ein the wider world of objects and things. The\u003cbr\u003ebook concludes with a discussion of the ethics\u003cbr\u003eof reading from the second person, opening up\u003cbr\u003ea debate concerning the role of empathy within\u003cbr\u003econtemporary, politically engaged practices in\u003cbr\u003eart and poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54000090644824,"sku":null,"price":142.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781780763378.jpg?v=1770876943","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/poetics-and-place-the-architecture-of-sign-subjects-and-site","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}