Cases of citation
On literature in art
Will be published approx. on 23. June 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-5261-9818-1 (ISBN)
Description
Cases of citation presents a history of artists who incorporated literary references into their work from the 1960s onwards.
Through a series of object-focused chapters that each take up a singular 'case of citation', the collection considers how literary citation emerged as a viable and urgent strategy for artists during this period. It surveys nine artworks by a diverse group of artists - including David Wojnarowicz, Lis Rhodes, Romare Bearden and Silvia Kolbowski - whose citations draw on literary works with authors ranging from Gertrude Stein to Jean Genet.
The book also features an interview with pioneering feminist artist Elaine Reichek that discusses her career-long commitment to working with text. Together, the artworks and cited texts are approached from various critical angles, with each author questioning and complicating the ways in which we can 'read' textual citations in art. -- .
Through a series of object-focused chapters that each take up a singular 'case of citation', the collection considers how literary citation emerged as a viable and urgent strategy for artists during this period. It surveys nine artworks by a diverse group of artists - including David Wojnarowicz, Lis Rhodes, Romare Bearden and Silvia Kolbowski - whose citations draw on literary works with authors ranging from Gertrude Stein to Jean Genet.
The book also features an interview with pioneering feminist artist Elaine Reichek that discusses her career-long commitment to working with text. Together, the artworks and cited texts are approached from various critical angles, with each author questioning and complicating the ways in which we can 'read' textual citations in art. -- .
Reviews / Votes
Cases of citation will be essential reading for a whole host of scholars and students[...] authors engage with key methodological questions [...] with important take-home for those coming to the book from comparative literature as much as for art historians.'-Michael Squire is Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge -- .
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Illustrations
16 colour illustrations, 9 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
443 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-9818-1 (9781526198181)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Chloe Julius is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Nottingham
Michael Green is an independent scholar and works in arts publishing
Matthew Holman is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire -- .
Michael Green is an independent scholar and works in arts publishing
Matthew Holman is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire -- .
Content
Introduction
Cases of citation: On literature in art - Michael Green, Matthew Holman, Chloe Julius
Citations after the death of the author - Chloe Julius
Part I: Hauntings and returns
1 Gothic: The return of the repressed - Laurie Rojas
2 'Was there anything so real as words?' Allen Ruppersberg's The Picture of Dorian Gray - Jennie Waldow
3 That monster - Ivan Knapp
Part II: Collage and influence
4 'Swarming city, city gorged with dreams': Sound, sight and text in Paris Blues - Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh
5 'Criminal, loner, drifter': metonymic citation in the collages of David Wojnarowicz - Louis Shankar
6 A language of recalcitrance: Lis Rhodes, Gertrude Stein, and syntactical play - Hannah Kahng
Part III: Transformation and substance
7 'What, I wonder, does love have to do with an irregular rectangle?' On Words & Drawings by Mario Schifano and Frank O'Hara (1964) - Matthew Holman
8 'My Funny Verlainetine': Queer citations in Ray Johnson's mail art - Brian Leahy
9 'Written honour': Wagner, Beuys, and Stendhal in Marcel Broodthaers's Magie: art et politique - Andrew Chesher
Part IIII: Between the Needle and the Book
10 Elaine Reichek in conversation with Michael Green and Chloe Julius
Index -- .
Cases of citation: On literature in art - Michael Green, Matthew Holman, Chloe Julius
Citations after the death of the author - Chloe Julius
Part I: Hauntings and returns
1 Gothic: The return of the repressed - Laurie Rojas
2 'Was there anything so real as words?' Allen Ruppersberg's The Picture of Dorian Gray - Jennie Waldow
3 That monster - Ivan Knapp
Part II: Collage and influence
4 'Swarming city, city gorged with dreams': Sound, sight and text in Paris Blues - Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh
5 'Criminal, loner, drifter': metonymic citation in the collages of David Wojnarowicz - Louis Shankar
6 A language of recalcitrance: Lis Rhodes, Gertrude Stein, and syntactical play - Hannah Kahng
Part III: Transformation and substance
7 'What, I wonder, does love have to do with an irregular rectangle?' On Words & Drawings by Mario Schifano and Frank O'Hara (1964) - Matthew Holman
8 'My Funny Verlainetine': Queer citations in Ray Johnson's mail art - Brian Leahy
9 'Written honour': Wagner, Beuys, and Stendhal in Marcel Broodthaers's Magie: art et politique - Andrew Chesher
Part IIII: Between the Needle and the Book
10 Elaine Reichek in conversation with Michael Green and Chloe Julius
Index -- .