- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Other Criteria (13 May 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906967210
- ISBN-13: 978-1906967215
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 19.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 828,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sue Hubbard s Adventures in Art fluently archives her very impressive twenty year trajectory of critical writing within the art world, transporting us into a multiplicity of artists lives and methodologies, and forming a portrait of contemporary art today. Nothing is left untouched or unconsidered. These selected writings narrate her discovery of the meaning of art and provide a useful tool of understanding for readers. --Hans Ulrich Obrist
Her pages about Rothko are the best I ve read about that extraordinary painter. She honours Sam Beckett as few others are able to do. We follow Sue Hubbard because she has the precision, the respect for words and pain, of a poet. We follow her because (as she writes in one of her poems) What if... if one night swimming in the freezing water, you look down to find the bottom littered with stars. --John Berger
This is a really insightful book! Sue Hubbard has been looking at contemporary and modern art for twenty years: her keen poet s eye leads her to perceive things not always evident to the rest of us. Most gratifyingly she writes a pleasing, lucid prose which makes complex ideas accessible and leaves us enriched by the clarity of her values. These essays tackle a swathe of all that has been happening in painting and sculpture over recent decades. Their range is truly impressive: from Christian Boltanski to Helen Chadwick, from Anselm Kiefer to Jane and Louise Wilson. Along the way Hubbard s own taste and judgement has evolved giving us a vivid sense of what these turbulent creative times have been like. Their cumulative effect is to indicate the direction modern art is taking and help us grapple with its meaning. --Joan Bakewell
Her pages about Rothko are the best I ve read about that extraordinary painter. She honours Sam Beckett as few others are able to do. We follow Sue Hubbard because she has the precision, the respect for words and pain, of a poet. We follow her because (as she writes in one of her poems) What if... if one night swimming in the freezing water, you look down to find the bottom littered with stars. --John Berger
This is a really insightful book! Sue Hubbard has been looking at contemporary and modern art for twenty years: her keen poet s eye leads her to perceive things not always evident to the rest of us. Most gratifyingly she writes a pleasing, lucid prose which makes complex ideas accessible and leaves us enriched by the clarity of her values. These essays tackle a swathe of all that has been happening in painting and sculpture over recent decades. Their range is truly impressive: from Christian Boltanski to Helen Chadwick, from Anselm Kiefer to Jane and Louise Wilson. Along the way Hubbard s own taste and judgement has evolved giving us a vivid sense of what these turbulent creative times have been like. Their cumulative effect is to indicate the direction modern art is taking and help us grapple with its meaning. --Joan Bakewell
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Adventures in Art (1990 - 2010) draws together 70 of Sue Hubbard s essays on contemporary and modern art and spans the last 20 years of her career. A diverse writer, Hubbard s collected essays are part biographical, part lyrical reviews of today s programme of modern art in Britain and provide an honest account of the diversities, originalities and disappointments found there. Thick with anecdotes and quotes from historians, artists and commentators, Hubbard s writing guides us through specific exhibitions as well as the creative lives of her subjects, and places the reader within a context replete with description and art historical value. Her knowledge is incisive and reflective and, in many retrospective cases, reads like a modern obituary. Without dictating, her writing celebrates the lives and contributions of artistic figures from Lucien Freud and Sam Taylor Wood to Marc Quinn and Cy Twombly.
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I only discovered this by reading Sue Hubbard's beautiful short story collection Rothko's Red; I am very glad I did. It is excellent, the best art criticism I have come across since Robert Hughes'.
Hubbard writes with insight as well as interest, and her range is huge. Her essays on Rothko, Lucian Freud, Prunella Clough, the Boyle Family are penetrating and informative, but there are so many here, some unknown to me.
It's also a delight to read, stylish and clear, free from the Theory-laden obfuscations of most academic art criticism, which has gone the way of Literary Criticism (it is hard to take seriously an aesthetic judgement from someone incapable of writing a single elegant sentence).
Hubbard is a poet and it shows, not only in her crisp style but also in her range of references, and in her ways of looking - concentrating on the works, not the theoretical grid.
For anyone like me, with a serious but entirely lay interest in contemporary art, and wanting help negotiating the current art world, this would be the perfect guidebook.
Hubbard writes with insight as well as interest, and her range is huge. Her essays on Rothko, Lucian Freud, Prunella Clough, the Boyle Family are penetrating and informative, but there are so many here, some unknown to me.
It's also a delight to read, stylish and clear, free from the Theory-laden obfuscations of most academic art criticism, which has gone the way of Literary Criticism (it is hard to take seriously an aesthetic judgement from someone incapable of writing a single elegant sentence).
Hubbard is a poet and it shows, not only in her crisp style but also in her range of references, and in her ways of looking - concentrating on the works, not the theoretical grid.
For anyone like me, with a serious but entirely lay interest in contemporary art, and wanting help negotiating the current art world, this would be the perfect guidebook.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Prepare to be disappointed. Sue Hubbard says she's a poet but brings little poetry to her subjects. Had she done so, it would surely have outweighed the lack of art-historical expertise. Journalism doesn't always easily translate into book form and here is evidence of that fact. There are some enlightening moments but most of this writing was and should be allowed to remain ephemeral.
Smudgy black and white illustrations add nothing (and in a couple of cases are replaced by empty capsules with a cross cancelling them - they look like editorial gaffes and probably are.)
Save your money for a really interesting art book...there are plenty on offer.
Smudgy black and white illustrations add nothing (and in a couple of cases are replaced by empty capsules with a cross cancelling them - they look like editorial gaffes and probably are.)
Save your money for a really interesting art book...there are plenty on offer.
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