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Subtitle: art as a philosophical context
By: essays by Stephen Melville ; edited and introduced by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe.
Contributors: Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy.
Series: Critical voices in art, theory and culture
Publisher: G+B Arts; Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9789057010316; 9789057010217
Subjects: Melville, Stephen W; Art -- Philosophy; Art -- History; Art historians
Notes: Include bibliographical references (p. 213-239).
Table of contents: title: Robert Smithson: "a literalist of the imagination"; title: Description; title: Aesthetic detachment: review of Jacques Derrida, The truth in painting; title: Positionality, objectivity, judgment; title: Psychoanalysis and the place of Jouissance; title: Division of the gaze, or remarks on the color and tenor of contemporary "theory"; title: Color has not yet been named: objectivity in deconstruction; title: Notes on the reemergence of allegory, the forgetting of modernism, the necessity of rhetoric, and the conditions of publicity in art and criticism; title: Compelling acts, haunting convicitions; title: Painting out asunder: moments lucid and opaque like Turner's sun and Cindy Sherman's face.