In relation to this idea of other models for the artist you could read Leo Steinberg’s critque of this tendency in, “Other Criteria” an essay in his collected works, Leo Steinberg, Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art (London: Oxford University Press, 1972).
However our aim in exploring this is not to avoid “the artist” but to generate specifics about how you as an artist may be functioning at any time, especially at this moment in relation to the “studies” you are producing.
