Hiding Making Showing Creation : The Studio from Turner to Tacita Dean The aim of Hiding Making Showing Creation is twofold.In the first instance we seek to trace the Nachleben of these studiotopoi from the nineteenth century to today in particular focusing onhow artists have employed them as strategies for showing certain aspectsof their practice (above all those which perpetuate the notionsof artistic genius and autonomy) while carefully hiding others fromview (routine failure craft).Secondly in order to achieve these goals we have adopted a methodthat we feel not only does justice to the richness and diversity of thetopic but which we believe will add a new dimension to the alreadyabundant and ever growing literature on the artists studio