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Deconstruction and the Work of Art - Visual Arts and Their Critique in Contemporary French Thought (Paperback)
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Deconstruction and the Work of Art - Visual Arts and Their Critique in Contemporary French Thought (Paperback)
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The contemporary idea of the "work of art" is paradoxically both
widely used and often unexamined. Therefore, we must re-evaluate
the concept before we can understand what the deconstruction of
aesthetics means for thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy,
and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. By examining their analyses of works
of visual art and contextualizing their thinking on the matter,
Martta Heikkila asserts that the implications of the "work of art,"
"art," and "the aesthetic" apply not only to philosophical
questions but also to a broader area. Instead of the totality
represented by the historical concept of Art, poststructuralist
thinkers introduce the idea of the radical multiplicity of art and
its works. From this notion arises the fundamental issue in Derrida
and the poststructuralist tradition: how can we speak
philosophically of art, which always exists as singular instances,
as works? In Deconstruction and the Work of Art: Visual Arts and
Their Critique in Contemporary French Thought, Heikkila shows that
the deconstructionist notions of art are still influential in the
discourses of contemporary art, in which artworks proliferate and
the concept of "work" is open-ended and expanding. This book offers
an introduction to the deconstructionist theory of art and brings
new perspectives to the complex, undecidable relation between
philosophy and art.
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