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Author Day, Gail

Title Dialectical Passions : Negation in Postwar Art Theory
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages)
Series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
Contents Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. T.J. Clark and the Pain of the Unattainable Beyond; Chapter 2. Looking the Negative in the Face: Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice School of Architecture; Chapter 3. Absolute Dialectical Unrest: Or, the Dizziness of a Perpetually Self-Engendered Disorder; Chapter 4. The Immobilizations of Social Abstraction; Afterword: Abstract and Transitive Possibilities; Notes; Index
Summary 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. Day organizes her defense around critics who have engaged substantively with emancipatory thought
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy
Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Philosophy
Negation (Logic)
ART -- Criticism & Theory.
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
Art, Modern -- Philosophy
Negation (Logic)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231520621
023152062X
0231149387
9780231149389