• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image

Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image

Paperback

PhilosophyArt Criticism & Theory

ISBN10: 1850434115
ISBN13: 9781850434115
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jul 23 2004
Pages: 209
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S. Pierce and Judith Butler. It argues for a performative relationship between art and artist. Drawing on themes as diverse as the work of Cezanne and Francis Bacon, the transubstantiation of the Catholic sacrament, and Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, she challenges the metaphor of light as entertainment. She suggests that too much light may in fact reveal nothing. Finally, she asks: how does an embodied practice fare within the culture of conceptual art?

Also in

Philosophy