Deborah J. Haynes is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is both a writer and artist. Haynes has published several other books: Bakhtin and the Visual Arts (1995), The Vocation of the Artist (1997), Art Lessons (2003), Book of This Place: The Land, Art & Spirituality (Pickwick Publications, 2009). Bakhtin Reframed is forthcoming.
Part I. Context: 1. Introduction
2. Bakhtin's historical and intellectual milieu
Part II. Bakhtin's Theory of Creativity: 3. Answerability
4. Outsideness
5. Un/finalizability
Part III. The Usefuleness of Bakhtin's Aesthetics: 6. Interpreting works of art
7. Bakhtin and postmodern art theory.
