218 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This exciting collection of David Goldblatt's essays, available for the first time in one volume, uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand a variety of art world phenomena. It examines how the vocal vacillation between ventriloquist and dummy works within the roles of artist, artwork and audience as a conveyance to the audience of the performer's intentions, emotions and beliefs... Read more
criti critical commentary: meaning beside itself; Chapter 1 Bergen and McCarthy: the logic of an act; Chapter 2 Nietzsche and ventriloquism; Chapter 3 self-spacing: Foucault's ventriloqual tendencies; Chapter 4 Socratic ventriloquism: theatricality and the voice of logos; Chapter 5 the dislocation of the architectural self; Chapter 6 self-plagiarism: the ecstatic recycling of the artist's voice; Chapter 7 Cavellian conversation and the life of art; epilo epilogue: two ventriloqual paintings;
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Goldblatt, David
