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Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image

By Barbara Bolt

Book information

Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Year
2004
ISBN
1850434115, 9781850434115, 1850434107, 9781850434108
Google Books ID
dHEdzo7tS7oC
Open Library ID
OL22594445M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
783 kB (802159 bytes)
Pages
220\220
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

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 Cézanne 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?

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