| Description |
xvi,, 8 pages of color plates, 377 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism |
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Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism.
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Representation, Nonrepresentation, Pleasure. 1. Edouard Manet and the Pleasure Problematic. 2. The Impressionist Revolution and Duchamp's Myopia. 3. Seriousness and Difficulty in Art Criticism. 4. Vision's Resistance to Language. 5. Irreconcilable Similarities: The Idea of Nonrepresentation. 6. Nonrepresentation in 1988: Meaning-Production Beyond the Scope of the Pious -- Pt. II. The Immediate Past. 7. Unmade in America. 8. Diebenkorn's Ambivalence. 9. James Hayward: Nonrepresentation Which Doesn't Represent. 10. Irwin in the Sixties: Expression, lines, dots, disks; Light. 11. Andy as Auntie -- Pt. III. Theory in Soho. 12. From Reading to Unreading: Barthes's Challenge and Derrida's Truth. 13. Van Gogh, Schapiro, Heidegger, and Derrida. 14. Beyond Absence. 15. Baudrillard's Aestheticism and the Art World's Politics. 16. Peter Halley's Writing: The Quest for the Veil. 17. Where Do Pictures Come From? Sarah Charlesworth and the Sexual Development of the Sign |
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Pt. IV. Praxis, Practice. 18. A Forest of Signs; the Price of Goodness. 19. Roni Horn. 20. Christian Haub and the Extremities of the Surface. 21. Painting Movement. 22. JAB / Panic. 23. Frank Gehry's Rebecca's -- Pt. V. Clothes, Masks, Bodies. 24. A Thigh-length History of the Fashion Photograph - An Abbreviated Theory of the Body. 25. The Beach Party and the Parties of Power (Summer's Content, Winter's Discontent). 26. Hey Baby, Where'd You Get That Hat? 27. Fashion's Revenge. 28. Mask / Masque. 29. Moist Attraction: Observations on an Advertisement Which Appeared in Vogue (U.S.), May 1992 -- Pt. VI. Place and Placelessness. 30. Locus, Locale, Region, Regime. 31. Sculpture as Everything Else; Twenty Years or So of the Question of Landscape. 32. House Blown Apart. 33. Intersections. 34. The End of Whose Century? 35. Born to Be Mild |
| Analysis |
Visual arts Criticism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-366) and index |
| Genre/Form |
Art criticism.
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| LC no. |
94042636 |
| ISBN |
0521460557 (hardback) |
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0521466113 (paperback) |
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