Seams: Art as a Philosophical Context

ISBN-13: 9789057010316 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 252 str.

Stephen Melville;Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe;Stephen Melville

Opis

Stephen Melville is one of the most thoughtful critics to emerge in recent years. He has applied the tools developed by Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan to the problems of contemporary art. With his roots in Kant, Hegel and Heidegger, he reopens questions of art's reception, interpretation and commentary. He demonstrates how the territory of each of these discourses is maintained by their relationship to one another. Melville's texts not only represent the complexity of his subject, but also the intricate interface between the art object, history and philosophical interpretation. Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe brings to Melville's work the insight not only of an art critic and theorist, but of a practicing artist as well. Navigating the complexity of contemporary thought and philosophy, Gilbert-Rolfe unravels the Gordian knot of the diverse discourses that circumscribe Melville's views, revealing the practicality and clarity of Melville's speculative narratives.

Spis treści

Introduction by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; introduction1 Stephen Melville and Art’s Philosophical Attitude Toward History; Part 1 Essays by Stephen Melville; Chapter 1 Robert Smithson; Chapter 2 Description; Chapter 3 Aesthetic Detachment; Chapter 4 Positionality, Objectivity, Judgment; Chapter 5 Psychoanalysis and the Place of Jouissance; Chapter 6 Division of the Gaze, or, Remarks on the Color and Tenor of Contemporary “Theory”; Chapter 7 Color has not Yet been Named; Chapter 8 Notes on the Reemergence of Allegory, the Forgetting of Modernism, the Necessity of Rhetoric, and the Conditions of Publicity in Art and Criticism; Chapter 9 Compelling Acts, Haunting Convictions; Chapter 10 Painting Put Asunder; Chapter 11 Postscript;

O autorze

Melville, Stephen; Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy