Recommended reading from @ridinghousebooks #Repost ・・・Three white covers from our critical writings series: 1. ‘Artist, Authorship & Legacy' an interdisciplinary collection of essays written from legal/art market perspectives. Drawing on current cases and legal disputes, this important anthology addresses enduring issues that have become central to the contemporary art world, such as the collision between artists' rights and the rights of the owners of artworks, the problems of authentication and who has the final authority to determine authenticity, and the role of artists' estates as legacy guardians. 2. 'Notes from the Playground' Richard Flood's musing on popular culture, his writings combine the autobiographical with the theoretical, presenting an intimate understanding of renowned contemporary artists. Flood draws on personal correspondence between himself and the artist, including an annotated conversation with Paul Thek; four interviews with Robert Gober during the 1990s; and a detailed description of a portrait sitting at Michael Landy’s studio. Flood’s significant essay on Arte Povera, co-authored with Frances Morris, is also reproduced. 3. Our latest, from February 2020, ‘The Outwardness of Art’ a substantial Adrian Stokes reader synthesising aesthetics and psychoanalysis. It has been nearly 45 years since a broad introduction to Stokes’s work has been commercially available. This volume presents a substantial selection from his published writings, highlighting him as a pioneering thinker of art and a virtuoso of the essay form. “The inclusion of Stokes’s ballet writings, as well as a fascinating essay on Mickey Mouse, reveal the writer’s prescient genre-bending approach. Likewise, Stokes’s demand that art expose itself to the viewer and that the viewer, in turn, interrogate their own interest is a timeless testament to the subjectivity of art writing.” @brooklynrail @goldmankay ~ All available now from our website. #ridinghousebooks #criticalwriting #arttheory #artcriticism #artwriting #adrianstokes #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #richardflood #artistestates #artworld #paulthek #francesmorris #robertgober #michaellandy https://www.instagram.com/p/CVnctM_jUyS/?utm_medium=tumblr
