Dialectical passions: negation in postwar art theory
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Main Author: Day, Gail (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press c2011
Series:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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 and social proces
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 308 p)
ISBN:9780231520621

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