Hiding Making - Showing Creation : The Studio from Turner to Tacita Dean

Abstract

The aim of Hiding Making - Showing Creation is twofold.

In the first instance, we seek to trace the Nachleben of these studio

topoi from the nineteenth century to today, in particular focusing on

how artists have employed them as strategies for showing certain aspects

of their practice (above all those which perpetuate the notions

of artistic genius and autonomy), while carefully hiding others from

view (routine, failure, craft).

Secondly, in order to achieve these goals, we have adopted a method

that we feel not only does justice to the richness and diversity of the

topic but which, we believe, will add a new dimension to the already

abundant and ever growing literature on the artist's studio.