Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde

Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 219
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ISBN-10 : 9781134920471
ISBN-13 : 1134920474
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Book Synopsis Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde by : Andrew Benjamin

Download or read book Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde written by Andrew Benjamin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde

Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9781134920464
ISBN-13 : 1134920466
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Book Synopsis Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde by : Andrew Benjamin

Download or read book Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde written by Andrew Benjamin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. It is in relation to this centrality, understood through the differences between modes of being, that art, mimesis and the avant-garde come to be presented. A fundamental part of this book is the original interpretations of important contemporary painters and their paintings: Lucian Freud's self-portraits, Francis Bacon's use of mirrors, R.B. Kitaj and Jewish identity, Anselm Kiefer and iconoclasm. Apart from painting, Benjamin considers architecture, literature and the philosophical writings of Walter Benjamin and Descartes in elaborating the various aspects of ontological difference. The theory of the avant-garde which is developed in the book, in which the avant-garde is a philosophical category rather than a historical marker, is a major contribution to art criticism. It brings the worlds of contemporary art criticism and contemporary philosophy closer together.

Art, Mimesis, and the Avant-garde

Art, Mimesis, and the Avant-garde
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Total Pages : 217
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Book Synopsis Art, Mimesis, and the Avant-garde by : Andrew E. Benjamin

Download or read book Art, Mimesis, and the Avant-garde written by Andrew E. Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Total Art of Stalinism

The Total Art of Stalinism
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 145
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ISBN-10 : 9781844678099
ISBN-13 : 1844678091
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Book Synopsis The Total Art of Stalinism by : Boris Groys

Download or read book The Total Art of Stalinism written by Boris Groys and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists’ goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.

Bad New Days

Bad New Days
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781784781460
ISBN-13 : 1784781460
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Book Synopsis Bad New Days by : Hal Foster

Download or read book Bad New Days written by Hal Foster and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Rancière, Bruno Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its repair; at other times burlesquing it. Against the claim that art making has become so heterogeneous as to defy historical analysis, Foster argues that the critic must still articulate a clear account of the contemporary in all its complexity. To that end, he offers several paradigms for the art of recent years, which he terms “abject,” “archival,” “mimetic,” and “precarious.”

Against the Avant-garde

Against the Avant-garde
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9780226655277
ISBN-13 : 022665527X
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Book Synopsis Against the Avant-garde by : Ara H. Merjian

Download or read book Against the Avant-garde written by Ara H. Merjian and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book casts the poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in a fresh light: his life and work in relation to the visual and performance arts of his time in both Europe and the US. Lavishly illustrated with both documentary and fine art images, it shows how essentially conservative Pasolini was politically and aesthetically despite his reputation as an avant-garde writer and filmmaker. But it also shows how truly advanced Pasolini was when it comes to interdisciplinary art, making him enormously relevant today"--

Theory of the Avant-garde

Theory of the Avant-garde
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 0719014530
ISBN-13 : 9780719014536
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Book Synopsis Theory of the Avant-garde by : Peter Bürger

Download or read book Theory of the Avant-garde written by Peter Bürger and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: