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Notes
1 ‘Mingled bodies’ is a reference to the subtitle of Michel Serres’ The Five Senses (see Serres Citation2008), although Serres himself would go further, asserting: ‘The authentic archives sleep in the earth and not in libraries’ (Serres Citation2015: 123).
2 The conceptual artist Daniel Buren, for example, attacked the studio as an ‘ivory tower’ and critiqued its function as ‘a unique space of production’ in a capitalist art economy, declaring, ‘All my work, proceeds from its extinction’ (Buren Citation1979: 51, 58).
3 For information on the Mackintosh Restoration process, programme of research and associated conferences see GSA (Citation2014).
4 Burning Kafka consisted of individual copies of the complete works of Franz Kafka burned, displayed in manila archival boxes alongside a text from Max Brod outlining Kafka’s last request that all his writings and papers be burned (a request that Brod ignored). Dialogue with Marcel Duchamp is a video and sculptural work that consisted of a copy of Pierre Cabanne’s, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, which was first cut in half with a small hacksaw with the lower half of the book shredded in a cheese grater. See Adam, Partington and Birrell (2014: 74–86).
5 The attribution is ambiguous. Goethe claims to have found among his papers one in which he calls architecture ‘petrified music’. However, it is Schelling who, in his Philosophie der Kunst, refers to architecture as ‘frozen music’. As the editors of Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe conclude, ‘it seems uncertain who said it first’ (Eckermann Citation1970 [1850]: 303).
6 In 1902 Mackintosh gave a lecture titled Seemliness in Glasgow and is reported to have said: ‘Art is the Flower. Life is the Green Leaf. Let every artist strive to make his flower a beautiful living thing, something that will convince the world that there may be, there are, things more precious more beautiful – more lasting than life itself’ (GSA Citation2012).
7 Readers interested in the art of funerary violin should see Kriwaczek (Citation2006).
8 Pritchard performed in the Mackintosh Library in 2011 as part of work filmed during a guided tour (McStravick Citation2011).
9 For an excellent anthology of artists’ responses to libraries, books and bookshelves, see Finlay (Citation2001).