David Carrier

Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism (eBook, PDF)

From Formalism to Beyond Postmodernism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Rosalind Krauss is, without visible rival, the most influential American art writer since Clement Greenberg. Together with her colleagues at ^IOctober^R, the journal she co-founded, she has played a key role in the introduction of French theory into the American art world. In the 1960s, though first a follower of Greenberg, she was inspired by her readings of French structuralist and post-structuralist materials, revolted against her mentor's formalism, and developed a succession of radically original styles of art history writing. Offering a complete survey of her career and work, ^IRosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism: From Formalism to Beyond Postmodernism^R comprises the first book-length study of its subject. Written in the lucid style of analytic philosophy, this accessible commentary offers a consideration of her arguments as well as discussions of alternative positions. Tracing Krauss's development in this way provides the best method of understanding the changing styles of American art criticism from the 1960s through the present, and thus provides an invaluable source of historical and aesthetic knowledge for artists and art scholars alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313076428
• Artikelnr.: 37842587

Autorenporträt

David Carrier has taught philosophy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and art history in Cleveland, Ohio. A former Getty Scholar and a Clark Fellow, he has been Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Class of 1932 Fellow in Philosophy, Princeton University, USA.

DAVID CARRIER is the Champney Family Professor at Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Institute of Art. He has written numerous works including Principles of Art History Writing, The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980s, and High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernism.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: The Rise of Philosophical Art Criticism In the
Beginning Was Formalism The Structuralist Adventure The Historicist
Antiessentialist Definition of Art Resentment and Its Discontents The
Deconstruction of Structuralism Afterword: The Fate of Philosophical Art
Criticism Index