The Optical Unconscious
$103.31
- Paperback
366 pages
- Release Date
25 July 1994
Summary
The Optical Unconscious is a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art according to certain sacred commandments and self-fulfilling truths. The account of modernism presented here challenges the vaunted principle of “vision itself.” And it is a very different story than we have ever read, not only because its insurgent plot and characters rise from below the calm surface of the known and law-like field of mod…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262611053 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262611058 |
| Author: | Rosalind E. Krauss |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 366 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 25 July 1994 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 22mm |
| Series: | October Books |
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Original, fascinating, personal, often brilliant, combative
Original, fascinating, personal, often brilliant, combative
– Arthur C. Danto * Artforum *This is critical theory grounded in the viscera and in the libido. A minimum of academic jargon, a satisfying helping of lovely description, a surprising amount of good dirty sex, not to mention an all-star cast of characters—Greenberg, Pollock, Woolf, Warhol, Deleuze, Sartre, Artaud, Madonna, and Jung productively inhabit these pages—which add up to nothing less than a persuasive rewriting of 20th-century culture.
* Voice Literary Supplement *About The Author
Rosalind E. Krauss
Rosalind E. Krauss is University Professor in the Department of Art History at Columbia University, where, from 1995 to 2006, she held the Meyer Schapiro Chair in Modern Art and Theory. She is a founding editor of October and the author of Passages in Modern Sculpture, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Myths, The Optical Unconscious, Bachelors, Perpetual Inventory, Under Blue Cup (all published by the MIT Press), and other books.
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