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Closeness Eats Time: Six Essays Inside Art

Writer
Mitch Speed
Editor
Casey Beal
Artist
Rebecca Watson Horn
Price
$25.00
Date
2025
Publisher
Brick Press
Format
Monographs
ISBN
978-0-9948386-3-6
Size
14.6 × 21.6 × 0.8 cm
Length
110 pp
Genre
Criticism, Arts Writing, Contemporary Art, Essays, Available for Wholesale
Description

In these six essays, Mitch Speed plumbs the ambivalences that at once fuel and plague art. Written over the last fifteen years, in parallel to Speed’s work as an art critic, the essays forward ways of writing, which might be better equipped to trace art’s role in life, from personal intricacies to looming political questions.

Each piece proceeds through a specific theme, for example: the art world’s relationship to socioeconomic injustice, the beguiling return of found objects to contemporary art, the devolution of art criticism into a branch of the communications industry, and how we can better understand art’s meanings, by attending closely to the words of the people who make it.

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