Andrew Benjamin

Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde

Aspects of a Philosophy of Difference

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Produktbeschreibung

Benjamin argues for a reappraisal of philosophy with reference to the centrality of ontology, offering original reinterpretations of contemporary painters including Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon and R.B. Kitaj.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780415060479
• ISBN-10: 0415060478
• Artikelnr.: 22253918

Autorenporträt

Andrew Benjamin lectures in philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (1989) and What is Deconstruction? (1988, with Christopher Norris), and has edited several collections including Post-structuralist Classics (1988) and Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin (1989), both in the Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature series published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: INAUGURATING REPETITION 1 INTERPRETING REFLECTIONS: PAINTING
MIRRORS 2 SPACING AND DISTANCING 3 BETRAYING FACES: LUCIAN FREUD'S
SELF[1]PORTRAITS 4 PRESENT REMEMBRANCE: ANSELM KIEFER'S ICONOCLASTIC
CONTROVERSY 5 KITAJ AND THE QUESTION OF JEWISH IDENTITY 6 MALEVICH AND THE
AVANT-GARDE 7 EISENMAN AND THE HOUSING OF TRADITION 8 PLURALISM, THE
COSMOPOLITAN AND THE AVANT-GARDE 9 THE DECLINE OF ART: BENJAMIN'S AURA 10
TRADITION AND EXPERIENCE: WALTER BENJAMIN'S 'ON SOME MOTIFS IN BAUDELAIRE'
11 DESCARTES' FABLE: THE DISCOURS DE LA METHODE 12 THE REDEMPTION OF VALUE:
LAPORTE, WRITING AS ABKURZUNG