Artwords
Subtitle: A Glossary of Contemporary Art Theory
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: May 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780313292729
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Reference works; Theory of art; Fine Arts (General); Art & Art Instruction; Art; Criticism; Reference; Art / General; General; 20th century; History; Philosophy; Terminology
First sentence: ABJECT The specific idea of the abject explored in recent art practice has been that theorized by French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva; (born in Bulgaria in 1941, educated in Paris under Barthes, Lacan, and others beginning in 1965), especially in her book Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, 1980 (translated in 1982).