Full Description
This collection, spanning nearly a decade of artistic activity, features selections of writings that trace the intellectual influences and track the development of one of the more formidable and productive minds in the contemporary art world. The writings comprise Enrique MartÍnez Celaya's public lectures; essays; interviews; correspondence with artists, critics, and scholars; artist statements; blog posts; and journal entries.
These texts were written during MartÍnez Celaya's appointment as Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska; Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College; and, most recently, as the first Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at the University of Southern California. Marked by MartÍnez Celaya's encyclopedic curiosity and considerable knowledge about the world, these writings and interviews explore the role of art in life, evaluate texts by other modern and contemporary artists and thinkers, and reveal the artist's deep engagement with artistic, philosophical, and literary lines of inquiry.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Matthew Biro
Introduction
Enrique Martínez Celaya
CollectedWritings& Interviews, 2010-2017
Why Make Art?, 2010
On Worth, 2011
Thank you for the Not-Art, 2011
Gesamtkunstwerk, 2011
Notes, 2011
On The Master, 2011 Schneebett, 2011
The Tower of Snow, A Story of Process, 2012
From an interview with Mary Rakow and Leo A. Harrington, 2012
From a video entitled Enrique Martínez Celaya, 2012
The Journal, 2012
Tuesday, April 3. The Beginning
Monday, April 9. A Primer on Freedom
Sunday, April 15. Against the Odds
Monday, April 23. Spirit of the Hive
Wednesday, May 16. One Art
Monday, May 21. Breakthroughs
Tuesday, June 5. A Mole in the Sun
Thursday, June 7. Road Home
Monday, June 11. Insolence
Friday, July 13. Authenticity and Drift
Sunday, August 5. Not a Forest
Saturday, September 8. Shown Rather Than Told (I)
Thursday, September 20. The Hunt's Will
Sunday, October 28. Like
Friday, November 2. Therefore
Friday, December 14. On Complaints About the Art Market
Saturday, December 15. Wall Wisdom
Notes, 2012 The Pearl and the Total Work of Art, 2013 The Pearl: Between Life and Dreams, A Conversation with Enrique
Martínez Celaya and Irene Hofmann, 2013
From a video entitled The Pearl at SITE Santa Fe, 2013 The Pearl, 2013
Notes, 2013
The Journal, 2013
Wednesday, January 2. Alain-Fournier
Monday, February 25. The Regret of the Mounting Dragon
Tuesday, March 12. The Great Race
Thursday, May 2. Why Don't You Give It Away More Easily?
Friday, June 21. The Pearl
Thursday, September 19. Markets
Monday, November 4. Burning as It Were a Lamp
Friday, November 8. Empirical Evidence
Thursday, November 14. Confetti Words and Dark Matter
Tuesday, November 19. The Tide
Wednesday, December 18. The Advice (Part I, to be continued)
On The Well, 2014
From an interview with Saul Ostrow, 2014
The Journal, 2014
Wednesday, January 15. A Wasted Journey, A Half-finished Blaze
Sunday, August 24. The Seaman's Crop
Monday, September 22. Seeing Things Differently (Part I)
Wednesday, September 24. Seeing Things Differently (Part II)
Tuesday, September 30. Seeing Things Differently (Part III)
Monday, November 17. The Frog King
Tuesday, December 9. Desert Places
Notes, 2014
The Child with the Mirror, 2014
Section Introductions from Martínez Celaya: Work and Documents 1990-2015, 2015
Why?, 2015
Excerpts from On Art & Mindfulness, 2015
Afterword from On Art & Mindfulness, 2015
Lone Star, 2015
Lone Star I
Lone Star II
Lone Star III
From a conversation with Sebastián Martínez Celaya, 2015
The Journal, 2015
Monday, January 26. The Question of Place
Wednesday, February 4. To Do
Monday, February 9. Work
Friday, February 20. The Juniper Tree
Monday, April 13. Selling Out
Thursday, April 30. Fluid Dynamics
Monday, June 22. One Reason to Stay In
Wednesday, October 14. The Captain
Wednesday, November 11. More Welders and Fewer Philosophers
Tuesday, November 24. Courage and Desperation
Empires, 2015
Empires I: Beginnings
Empires II: The Shore
Empires III: The Lions
Empires IV: Cowboy Junkies's Staring Man
Empires V: The Dresser
Empires VI: The Dream
Empires VII: The Fridge
Empires VIII: Misreadings and Searchings
Empires IX: The Prodigal Son
Empires X: Drifting
Empires XI: The Dream
Empires XII: Endings
A footnote on Empires
From an interview with Robin Cembalest, 2015
La casa de Nueva Paz: A Proposal for Frieze London, 2015
On The Fourth Angel, 2015
What You Owe Yourself, 2015
From an interview with Boris Hirmas Said, 2016
From an interview with Ben Tufnell, 2016
The Journal, 2016
Friday, February 26. Portraits Anti-Portraits
Tuesday, April 12. Superheroes
Sunday, May 8. Heart, Hemingway and The Iceberg
Tuesday, May 10. The Collector (Not the John Fowles novel)
Friday, October 28. The Case for Not Answering a Call
Notes, 2016
From an interview with Hannah Silverstein, 2016
Don't Be Great Again: Art, Disillusionment, and Potentiality, 2017
From an interview with Chris Hedges, 2017
From an interview with Krista Tippett, 2017
The Artist: Conscience in the Age of Cynicism, 2017
Reflections on Slowness and Art, 2017
Interview with Myself, 2017
From an interview with Klaus Ottmann, 2017
From an interview with Susan Delson, 2017
From an interview with Lilly Wei, 2017
From an interview with Osman Can Yerebakan, 2017
Notes, 2017
On Nothing That is Ours, 2017
The Journal, 2017
Thursday, April 13. The Robot
Tuesday, August 1. The Reader
Monday, August 14. The Date
The Other Life, 2017
