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Article: The Absolute Artist: The Historiography of a Concept.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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The aim of Catherine Soussloff's book is to locate the artist, as cultural figure, in "the discourse of history," an ambition motivated, its author writes, "by the obvious lack of critical discussion about the concept of the artist in exactly the literature where one might expect to find it." The literature in question is art history, which, in the author's view, has been concerned almost entirely with the object pole of what she refers to as the "artist-object binary." "Most questions asked by historians of art since the beginning of this century remain concerned with the object," she writes, which "allows art history to avoid its own history and the politics embedded in ...
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