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Photography ART 890, Artist Writing and Artist Books

This co-taught seminar is designed to help M.F.A. students incorporate writing into their practice, find language fit to introduce their work to the wider world, and explore various techniques and historical examples of artist books and collaborative artist-run publications. Students discuss works by writers such as Chantal Akerman, Georges Perec, Ralph Ellison, Zadie Smith, and Maggie Nelson—all in service of exploring themes and techniques including description, portraiture, argument, public address, and personal narrative. Through a series of in-class prompts and take-home assignments, they also create, discuss, and refine their own writing as well as conceptualize and produce individual and collaborative publication projects.

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This website exists as an ongoing collaborative experiment in digital publishing and information sharing. Because this website functions as a wiki, all members of the School of Art community—graduate students, faculty, staff, and alums—have the ability to add new content and pages, and to edit most of the site’s existing content.

Content is the property of its various authors. When you contribute to this site, you agree to abide by Yale University academic and network use policy, and to act as a responsible member of our community.