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Sally is off the grid for a couple of weeks,
, but she would like to point out two recent, interesting posts about art writing: Leah Sandals drawing connections between the double rainbow guy and art criticism and Art Fag City taking on Trembling's academic style.
Sally says:
Enthusiasm, empathy and speculation seem to get short shrift in a lot of discussion about art writing. Both Leah and Paddy seem to be worrying about art writers reading things into the work that aren't empirically there. I agree that there's nothing worse than narcissistic art writers who just ramble on cause they like the sound of their own words (and I do it myself far too often). But it seems to me that people who are writing about art are necessarily conscious of the fact that there is always an element of speculative fiction in any verbal art interpretation. Language is its own medium that can never exactly reproduce the specificity of an artwork. It's humbling, and it should be, but there's no need for writers to pretend that it isn't also fun. Like artworks, words take on a life of their own.