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"Elizabeth Newman is best known as a visual artist whose practice encompasses a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. Writing, too, is central to her art.
As indicated by the twenty-five or so texts compiled in this book, all dating from the last fifteen years, Newman’s literary output extends beyond her studio practice. Many of these texts are about artworks and exhibitions—her own as well as those of other local artists: they serve a critical rather than an aesthetic function. As such, these writings offer valuable insight into Newman’s artistic intentions and motivations, and her commentaries on the art of her peers constitute a compelling partial survey of art produced in Melbourne over the last decade and a half. Newman’s writings also venture outside the purview of art. From the Australian Government’s maltreatment of refugees, to the encroachment of OHS regulations on our everyday existence, to the celebration of ‘evasive subjectivity’ in fashion at the turn of the millennium, these texts declare the author’s engagement with issues in the world at large. The diversity of Newman’s subject matter matches the formal range of her essays, which move freely between personal anecdote, critical discussion of culture and politics, and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory."
- http://www.discipline.net.au/
As indicated by the twenty-five or so texts compiled in this book, all dating from the last fifteen years, Newman’s literary output extends beyond her studio practice. Many of these texts are about artworks and exhibitions—her own as well as those of other local artists: they serve a critical rather than an aesthetic function. As such, these writings offer valuable insight into Newman’s artistic intentions and motivations, and her commentaries on the art of her peers constitute a compelling partial survey of art produced in Melbourne over the last decade and a half. Newman’s writings also venture outside the purview of art. From the Australian Government’s maltreatment of refugees, to the encroachment of OHS regulations on our everyday existence, to the celebration of ‘evasive subjectivity’ in fashion at the turn of the millennium, these texts declare the author’s engagement with issues in the world at large. The diversity of Newman’s subject matter matches the formal range of her essays, which move freely between personal anecdote, critical discussion of culture and politics, and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory."
- http://www.discipline.net.au/
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192 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2019
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August 10, 2025
enjoyed this much more than i thought I would... accessible art writing. I loved the psychoanalysis. Getting weirdly into psychoanalysis at the moment
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