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In A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China, Mary Bittner
Wiseman shows that material matters in the work of Chinese artists,
where the goal is to call attention to its subjects through the
directness and immediacy of its material, like dust from 9/11, 1001
Chinese citizens, paintings made with gunpowder, written words, or
the specificity of its sites, like the Three Gorges Dam. Artists
are working below the level of language where matter and gesture,
texture and touch, instinct and intuition live. Not reduced to the
words applied to them, art's subjects appear in their concrete
particularity, embedded in the stories of their materials or their
sites. Wiseman argues that it is global in being able to be
understood by all, as are the materials in the new art and the
stories that accompany them: here are items from Song Dong's
mother's home in the Cultural Revolution, here is dust from
6/11.Finally, it satisfies Arthur Danto's characterization of art
asany representation that shows something new about its subject or
puts it in a new light, by way of a rhetorical figure that the
viewer interprets. Danto has given criteria for a given work's
making the case for itself hat it is art. The material art from
China is the paradigm for an art that is global and contemporary.
In this book, first published in 1989, Mary Bittner Wiseman
interprets Roland Barthes's experiments as efforts to reposition
the human subject with respect to language and to time in order to
let the subject escape from the language of a particular culture
and the present time. With her insistent pushing against the
boundaries of our standard academic assumptions, Mary Bittner
Wiseman succeeds in interpreting Barthes's effort to join the
traditional and the new. This title will be of interest to students
of literature and philosophy.
Interpretation, Relativism, and Identity: Essays on the Philosophy
of Michael Krausz addresses three major philosophical themes:
interpretation, relativism, and identity. It does so by focusing on
Krausz's distinctive exploration of the relationship between
interpretation and ontology, the varieties of relativism, and the
interpretive dimension of identity construction. Throughout the
years, Krausz has participated in exchanges between people who
embrace opposing views about reality, human selves, and the
attachments or detachments between them. In these exchanges, life
orientations are at stake as much as conceptual distinctions. These
exchanges are reflected in a discussion among renowned scholars in
philosophy and literary studies not only on Krausz's work but also
on the significant philosophical implications of key issues for how
we understand the human condition, our commitments and values, the
meaning of religious and artistic texts, and the way we make sense
of our lives and ourselves. The contributors to this volume engage
with all of these concerns in their dialogue with Krausz and with
one another. The range and versatility of Krausz's conceptual
apparatus can benefit students and scholars with interests in
interpretative endeavors, different ontological commitments, and
various conceptual priorities and preferences.
In this book, first published in 1989, Mary Bittner Wiseman
interprets Roland Barthes's experiments as efforts to reposition
the human subject with respect to language and to time in order to
let the subject escape from the language of a particular culture
and the present time. With her insistent pushing against the
boundaries of our standard academic assumptions, Mary Bittner
Wiseman succeeds in interpreting Barthes's effort to join the
traditional and the new. This title will be of interest to students
of literature and philosophy.
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