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Seams - Art as a Philosophical Context (Hardcover)
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Seams - Art as a Philosophical Context (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
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Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe brings to Melville's work the insight not only
of an art critic and theorist, but of a practicing artist as well.
Navigating through the complexity of contemporary thought and
philosophy, Gilbert-Rolfe unravels the Gordian knot of the diverse
discourses that circumscribe Melville's views, revealing the
practicality and clarity of Melville's speculative
narratives.
Stephen Melville is one of the most thoughtful critics to emerge in
recent years. He has applied the tools developed by Jacques Derrida
and Jacques Lacan to the problems of contemporary art. With his
roots in Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, he reopens questions of art's
reception, interpretation, and commentary. Not only does he
articulate the limitations of these categories, and how they are
set into motion-stasis and balance are not the goal. He
demonstrates how the territory of each of these discourses is
maintained by their relationship to one another. Melville's texts
not only represent the complexity of his subjec
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