Jack Fulton The Walker Artist A Monograph edition by Phil Semler Arts Photography eBooks
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“Language is a labyrinth of paths,” wrote Wittgenstein. “You approach from one side and know your way about; you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about.”
Semler’s book is a collage of paths—a monograph on a fictional artist, poetry, the history of landscape painting, contemporary art criticism, and the philosophy of walking and art, including almost 300 footnotes to ensure accessibility of the text.
Jack Fulton is the “walker-artist.” A gifted representational painter, he decides instead to become a conceptual artist in the seventies in New York loosely affiliated with the Land Artists, such as Robert Smithson, creator of the earthwork “Spiral Jetty” in Utah.
Semler follows in the footsteps of John Berger, Rachel Kushner, Geoff Dyer, Jonathan Lethem, and Siri Hustvedt in his new novella.
Turning his back on the more monumental earthworks, Fulton returns to his roots, walking. Like Thoreau, Fulton walks as an art form. He then documents those walks with photographs, maps, text, and found objects. He avoids autobiographical elements in his art and little is known about him, making him a difficult sell in the contemporary art market, which depends on embodied objects displayed in the gallery.
Unlike the more famous and successful British walking artists Richard Long and Hamish Fulton (sic), he must continue to paint representational art to make a living.
Finally tiring of life and the art world, Fulton disappears on a walk, presumed a suicide, only to reappear on the Internet in thousands of selfies taken by others in the midst of a 50,000 mile, ten year walk around the world, which he insists, is not a pilgrimage, but the culmination of his art
Jack Fulton The Walker Artist A Monograph edition by Phil Semler Arts Photography eBooks
The book declares itself a monograph but can it be if the artist under discussion is invented? I guess the answer’s “yes” since that’s what we have here: an examination of fictional Jack Fulton’s life and work as a walker artist.Luckily (for this reader at least) the monograph also turns out to offer a thorough overview of what a “walker artist” is and how such an artist’s work can be understood.
On the surface walker art seems more Sierra Club than it does art. Walker artists literally go for walks, albeit significant ones, often taking up many days or weeks, covering many miles, over terrain not easily traversed. When they’re out there, in nature, they are usually alone and the experience is all theirs. But when they return, they share with gallery goers a few photos (not particularly good ones, none of them are Ansel Adams), some lines of text (dates, locations, distances), perhaps a few rocks or the worn out boots they walked in.
That’s about it. Except that Semler won’t settle for anything quite so banal. He surveys the art’s evolution from Turner and the landscape painting of the 19th Century to Richard Smithson and the land art of today. He ranges widely in considering Fulton’s motives, not just “the conceptualist goal of object-less art” but his “walking the land to be woven into nature.” And as readers of Semler’s other books will expect, there are some pretty heavyweight philosophical ideas to be wrestled with (Heidegger on shoes painted by van Gogh). There are plenty of literary allusions too, from Melville and Kafka to Kerouac and Wallace. You’ll even come across some early Pink Floyd.
There are lots of footnotes. I mean lots. While they are often useful, reading this on the Kindle for PC soon became a bit of a chore. Yes, one can easily link to a footnote and quickly link back to the narrative, but it’s disruptive nevertheless. A writer as established as Semler now is - with both literary and entertaining novels to his credit, a biography about his travels (not unrelated to the work under discussion) - deserves a print edition of this new book. Perhaps one in which the footnotes appear on the page they relate too? (Semler, I think, prefers endnotes.) But most desired would be an edition including illustrations of the works and the locations covered in the text.
Even in its present form, Jack Fulton: The Walker Artist, is a fascinating and informative introduction to a field of art less frequently encountered by many readers.
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Jack Fulton The Walker Artist A Monograph edition by Phil Semler Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
A treatise on art history, art theory and art criticism in the guise of a fascinating and strange novel about a walking artist. Interesting and compelling.
The book declares itself a monograph but can it be if the artist under discussion is invented? I guess the answer’s “yes” since that’s what we have here an examination of fictional Jack Fulton’s life and work as a walker artist.
Luckily (for this reader at least) the monograph also turns out to offer a thorough overview of what a “walker artist” is and how such an artist’s work can be understood.
On the surface walker art seems more Sierra Club than it does art. Walker artists literally go for walks, albeit significant ones, often taking up many days or weeks, covering many miles, over terrain not easily traversed. When they’re out there, in nature, they are usually alone and the experience is all theirs. But when they return, they share with gallery goers a few photos (not particularly good ones, none of them are Ansel Adams), some lines of text (dates, locations, distances), perhaps a few rocks or the worn out boots they walked in.
That’s about it. Except that Semler won’t settle for anything quite so banal. He surveys the art’s evolution from Turner and the landscape painting of the 19th Century to Richard Smithson and the land art of today. He ranges widely in considering Fulton’s motives, not just “the conceptualist goal of object-less art” but his “walking the land to be woven into nature.” And as readers of Semler’s other books will expect, there are some pretty heavyweight philosophical ideas to be wrestled with (Heidegger on shoes painted by van Gogh). There are plenty of literary allusions too, from Melville and Kafka to Kerouac and Wallace. You’ll even come across some early Pink Floyd.
There are lots of footnotes. I mean lots. While they are often useful, reading this on the for PC soon became a bit of a chore. Yes, one can easily link to a footnote and quickly link back to the narrative, but it’s disruptive nevertheless. A writer as established as Semler now is - with both literary and entertaining novels to his credit, a biography about his travels (not unrelated to the work under discussion) - deserves a print edition of this new book. Perhaps one in which the footnotes appear on the page they relate too? (Semler, I think, prefers endnotes.) But most desired would be an edition including illustrations of the works and the locations covered in the text.
Even in its present form, Jack Fulton The Walker Artist, is a fascinating and informative introduction to a field of art less frequently encountered by many readers.
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