Art beyond Representation - The Performative Power of the Image (Paperback)

Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, Bolt's striking argument engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S.Peirce and Judith Butler to argue for a performative relationship between art and artist. Drawing on themes as diverse as the work of Cezanne and of Francis Bacon, the transubstantiation of the Catholic sacrament and Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray," she challenges the metaphor of light as enlightenment, reconceiving this revealing light as the blinding glare of the Australian sun, and suggests that too much light may in fact reveal nothing. Finally she asks: how does an embodied practice fare within the culture of conceptual art?

General

Imprint:	I.B. Tauris
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	December 2004
Authors:	Barbara Bolt
Dimensions:	234 x 158 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	209
ISBN-13:	978-1-85043-411-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art
LSN:	1-85043-411-5
Barcode:	9781850434115

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