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  1. Art Beyond Representation
    the Performative Power of the Image.
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, London [England] ; Bloomsbury Publishing, London

    Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S. Pierce and Judith Butler. It argues for a performative relationship between art and artist. Drawing on themes as... more

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    Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S. Pierce and Judith Butler. It argues for a performative relationship between art and artist. Drawing on themes as diverse as the work of Cezanne and Francis Bacon, the transubstantiation of the Catholic sacrament, and Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", she challenges the metaphor of light as entertainment. She suggests that too much "light" may in fact reveal nothing. Finally, she asks: how does an "embodied" practice fa.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780755604876; 9786000007607; 6000007604
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: LH 61040
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Kunst; Repräsentation; Ästhetik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (219 pages)
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    Bloomsbury Collections - I.B. Tauris Art & Visual Culture Archive 2001-2015