Bakhtin and the Visual Arts

Informationen zum Autor Deborah J. Haynes is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is both a writer and artist. Haynes has published several other books: Bakhtin and the Visual Arts (1995), The Vocation of the Artist (1997), Art Lessons (2003), Book of This Place: The Land, Art & Spirituality (Pickwick Publications, 2009). Bakhtin Reframed is forthcoming. Klappentext Assesses the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas as they relate to the visual arts. Zusammenfassung Bakhtin and the Visual Arts! first published in 1995! assesses the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas as they relate to painting and sculpture. Deborah Haynes's in-depth study of Bakhtin's aesthetics! especially his theory of creativity! analyses its applicability to contemporary art theory and criticism Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Context: 1. Introduction; 2. Bakhtin's historical and intellectual milieu; Part II. Bakhtin's Theory of Creativity: 3. Answerability; 4. Outsideness; 5. Un/finalizability; Part III. The Usefuleness of Bakhtin's Aesthetics: 6. Interpreting works of art; 7. Bakhtin and postmodern art theory.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah J. Haynes, Deborah J. (Washington State University) Haynes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2008
• EAN: 9780521066044
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06604-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in New Art H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works