Dialectical Passions - Negation in Postwar Art Theory

Informationen zum Autor Gail Day is senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art! History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Klappentext Representing a new generation of theorists who reaffirm the radical dimensions of art! Gail Day launches a bold critique of late-twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art! from the New Left to theories of "critical postmodernism" and beyond! Day counters the belief that recent tendencies in art fail to be adequately critical and challenges the political inertia that results from these conclusions. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. T. J. Clark and the Pain of the Unattainable Beyond2. Looking the Negative in the Face: Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice School of Architecture3. Absolute Dialectical Unrest! Or! the Dizziness of a Perpetually Self-Engendered Disorder4. The Immobilization of Social AbstractionAfterword: Abstract and Transitive PossibilitiesNotesIndex

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• Authors: Gail Day, Gail (Head of Division Day, Day Gail, Gail Day
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.2010
• EAN: 9780231149389
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14938-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 238 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Columbia University Press; Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts; Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, ART / History / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, art history; art criticism