Beyond Piety
Critical Essays on the Visual Arts, 1986–1993
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Part of Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism
- Author: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
- Editor: Norman Bryson, Harvard University, Massachusetts
- Date Published: November 1995
- availability: Unavailable - out of print June 2013
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521466110
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Beyond Piety examines several fundamental questions regarding the work of art and such aesthetic issues as pleasure, beauty and completeness, especially as it functions within the contexts of discontinuity, deferral, displacement and multiplicity. This collection offers a reassessment of the relationship between the art work (or any object considered as something to be looked at) and argument. Engaging the work of art with the discourses of the body, history and textuality, the book offers, moreover, an approach to contemporary art through a novel application of French theory, which is used to reopen questions that have, in both conservative and avant-garde circles, generally been considered to be resolved.
Read more- Examines contemporary art through application of French theory, thereby reopening debates previously thought to have been resolved
- Examines fundamental questions about the work of art and how it functions within the contexts of discontinuity, deferral, displacement and multiplicity
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- Date Published: November 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521466110
- length: 393 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.983kg
- contains: 31 b/w illus. 8 tables
- availability: Unavailable - out of print June 2013
Table of Contents
Part I. Representation, Nonrepresentation, Pleasure:
1. Edouard Manet and the Pleasure Problematic
2. The Impressionist revolution and Duchamp's myopia
3. Seriousness and difficulty in criticism
4. Vision's resistance to language
5. Irreconcilable similarities: The Idea of Nonrepresentation
6. Nonrepresentation in 1988: meaning-production beyond the scope of the Pious
Part II. The Immediate Past:
7. Unmade in America
8. Diebenkorn's ambivalence
9. James Hayward: nonrepresentation which doesn't represent
10. Irwin in the sixties: expression, LINES, DOTS, DISCS, LIGHT
11. Andy as auntie
Part III. Theory In Soho:
12. From reading to unreading, Barthes' challenge and Derrida's truth
13. Van Gogh, Schapiro, Heidegger, and Derrida
14. Beyond absence
15. Baudrillard's aestheticism and the art world's politics
16. Peter Halley's writing: The Quest for the Veil
17. Where do Pictures Come From? Sarah Charlesworth and the sexual development of the sign
Part IV. Praxis, Practice:
18. A forest of signs
The Price of Goodness
19. Roni Horn
20. Christian Haub and the extremities of the surface
21. Painting movement
22. Jab/panic
23. Frank Gehry's Rebecca's
Part V. Clothes, Masks, Bodies:
24. A thigh-length history of the fashion photograph: an abbreviated theory of the body
25. The Beach Party and the Parties of Power (summer's content, winter's discontent)
26. Hey Baby, Where'd You Get That Hat?
27. Fashion's revenge
28. Mask/masque
29. Moist attraction: observations on an advertisement which appeared in Vogue (US), May 1992
Part VI. Place and Placelessness:
30. Locus, locale, region, régime
31. Sculpture as everything else: twenty years or so of the question of landscape
32. House blown apart
33. Intersections
34. The end of whose century?
35. Born to be mild.
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