A pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water
painted on a signboard. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew
towards it w…
Writing
Interview Photo Espana 2008
Interview by Ana Bergueta with Karen Knorr PHOTO ESPANA 2008
- Why did you choose a uniform format for your earlier black and white work? What det…
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Challenging the Order of Things
Challenging ‘The Order of Things’: a call to arms in Karen Knorr’s Academies.
Established in 1768, the Royal Academy of Arts aimed to ele…
- Author: Sabina Gill 2009 / Word count: 907
The Virtues and The Delights – Reinventing History (1993)
The problem is no longer one of tradition, of tracing a line, but one of division, of limits; it is no longer one of lasting foundations, but one of …
- Author: Karen Knorr / Word count: 3565
The Grapes Are Sour Anyway!
Considering the recent period, where much UK fine-art photography is either minimally abstract, suggestive of the banality of the everyday,…
- Author: Daniel Campbell Blight / Word count: 1325
Où les pigeons nous donnent une leçon de savoir-vivre…
Dans le sillage d’artistes aussi fameux que La Fontaine ou Chardin, Karen Knorr s’intéresse depuis longtemps aux rapports entre l’an…
- Author: Vianney de Valence / Word count: 1210
The Photographic Practice of Karen Knorr
“No space of representation without a subject, and no subject without a space it is not. No subject, therefore, without a boundary”. (Vict…
- Author: Kathy Kubicki / Word count: 3172
Museum and Medium: The Time of Karen Knorr’s Imagery
The encounter between two disciplines doesn’t take place when one begins to reflect on another, but when one discipline realises that i…
- Author: David Campany / Word count: 2830
Interview with Karen Knorr
Dans l’œuvre de Karen Knorr, l’animal est l’intermédiaire entre la nature et l’homme, tout à la fois intercesseur de la première…
- Author: Nathalie LeLeu / Word count: 2354