Quotations

 “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism.” 

T.S. Elliot- The Sacred Wood

“Authors are not individuals but characters manifested or exemplified, though not depicted or

described, in texts. They are formal causes. They are postulated to account for a text’s features

and are produced through an interaction between critic and text. Their nature guides

interpretation and interpretation determines their nature. This reciprocal relationship can be

called, not simply for a lack of a better word, transcendental.” (Nehamas 686).

Raj, P.P.E. (2012) Author and Text: Reading Michel Foucault’s What is an Author. The criterion [online]. 3 (3), p6 . [Accessed 02 Jan 2013].

Nehamas, A. (1986) “What and Author Is.” The Journal of Philosophy. 83 (11), p. 685. Print.

“’Hitchcock’s undercurrent of fear, Cindy Sherman’s themes of female identity, Gregory Crewdson’s nightmarish suburbs, the cartoonish drama of Roy Lichtenstein’s women- she takes all this visual language and creates something entirely her own.’ Michael Hoppen told Photo District News”

Hoppen, M. (2010) Cover story, new talent. British Journal of Photography. 157(7760) pp 42-43.

"Douglas often presents his work in such a way that there is an element of chance and random ordering, meaning that the viewer can enter the narrative at any point and create their own understanding."

O’Hagen, Sean. (2012) The Guardian. Available from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/apr/22/stan-douglas-alex-prager-review [Accessed 18 December 2012]

"I like the primary colours of that time. I like the full curves of the classic female lead. These are strong things that the viewer instantly understands. They can bring their own references and memories."

Prager, A. (2012) The Telegraph. Available from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/9217494/Alex-Prager-Photographys-heir-to-Hitchcock.html [Accessed 19 December 2012]

“He views author and the text working concurrently where the cultural inclinations of the author is a pre-existent kind and transpires as the text comes to existence. Therefore it is the reader who generates the meaning and occupies an important place in the literary context.” (About Roland Barthes- The Death of the Author)

Raj, P.P.E. (2012) Author and Text: Reading Michel Foucault’s What is an Author. The criterion [online]. 3 (3), p.9 [Accessed 02 Jan 2013].