Art from Start to Finish
Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations
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Art from Start to Finish
Jazz, Painting, Writing, and Other Improvisations
When is an artistic work finished? When the copyeditor makes the final correction to a manuscript, when the composer writes the last note of a symphony, or when the painter puts the last brushstroke on the canvas? Perhaps it’s even later, when someone reads the work, when an ensemble performs, or when the painting is hung on a gallery wall for viewing?
Art from Start to Finish gathers a unique group of contributors from the worlds of sociology, musicology, literature, and communications—many of them practicing artists in their own right—to discuss how artists from jazz musicians to painters work: how they coordinate their efforts, how they think, how they start, and, of course, how they finish their productions.
Specialists in the arts have much to say about the works themselves, which are often neglected by scholarsi n other fields. Art from Start to Finish takes a different tack by exploring the creative process itself and its social component. Any reader who makes art or has an interest in it will value this book.
Art from Start to Finish gathers a unique group of contributors from the worlds of sociology, musicology, literature, and communications—many of them practicing artists in their own right—to discuss how artists from jazz musicians to painters work: how they coordinate their efforts, how they think, how they start, and, of course, how they finish their productions.
Specialists in the arts have much to say about the works themselves, which are often neglected by scholarsi n other fields. Art from Start to Finish takes a different tack by exploring the creative process itself and its social component. Any reader who makes art or has an interest in it will value this book.
248 pages | 23 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2006
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Art: Art Criticism
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Music: General Music
Sociology: Sociology of Arts--Leisure, Sports
Reviews
Table of Contents
Foreword by Stanley Katz
Preface by Howard S. Becker, Robert R. Faulkner, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Editor’s Introduction: Art from Start to Finish by Howard S. Becker, Robert R. Faulkner, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
1. The Work Itself
Howard S. Becker
2. Profiles of the Unfinished: Rodin’s Work and the Varieties of Incompleteness
Pierre-Michel Menger
3. "How do I know I am Finnish?" The Computer, the Archive, the Literary Artist, and the Work as Social Object
Michael Joyce
4. Shedding Culture
Robert R. Faulkner
5. What Is What I Do
Scott Deveaux
6. Grasping Shona Musical Works: A Case Study of Mbira Music
Paul Berliner
7. Economic Analysis and Steps toward Completing the Work
Richard E. Caves
8. The Fragment Itself
Larry Gross
Preface by Howard S. Becker, Robert R. Faulkner, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Editor’s Introduction: Art from Start to Finish by Howard S. Becker, Robert R. Faulkner, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
1. The Work Itself
Howard S. Becker
2. Profiles of the Unfinished: Rodin’s Work and the Varieties of Incompleteness
Pierre-Michel Menger
3. "How do I know I am Finnish?" The Computer, the Archive, the Literary Artist, and the Work as Social Object
Michael Joyce
4. Shedding Culture
Robert R. Faulkner
5. What Is What I Do
Scott Deveaux
6. Grasping Shona Musical Works: A Case Study of Mbira Music
Paul Berliner
7. Economic Analysis and Steps toward Completing the Work
Richard E. Caves
8. The Fragment Itself
Larry Gross
9. Object / Shadows—Notes on a Developing Art Form
Larry Kagan
10. "This is a stone from the endless beach": An Interview with Max Gimblett
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
11. Art Works
Michael D. Harris
12. Wallace Stevens’s Jar
Bruce Jackson
List of Contributors
Index