Artwords
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781884964916
Subjects: Language for specific purposes; Reference works; Theory of art; Art & Art Instruction; Art; General; History - General
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).