1st Edition
Capacity The History, the World, and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism
By Thomas McEvilley
Copyright 1996
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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G. Roger Denson brings singular insight to Thomas McEvilley's writings. As an art writer he has explored similar territory, but from the point of view of a nomadic ideologist. His approach matches that of his subject. He addresses the issues of pragmatism, historicism, and cultural relativism. In so doing, he effectively dismantles the need to establish a master narrative. The contrast and... Read more
Part One History As Context: Expanding Modernist Form; Chapter 1 Heads It's Form, Tails It's Not Content; Chapter 2 Seeking the Primal Through Paint: The Monochrome Icon; Part Two The World and Its Difference; Chapter 3 Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief: Primitivism in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art; Chapter 4 History, Quality, Globalism; Chapter 5 Arrivederci Venice: The Third World Biennials; Part Three The Self and Subjectivity; Chapter 6 I Am, Is a Vain Thought; Chapter 7 Penelope's Night Work: Negative Thinking In Greek Philosophy; Chapter 8 Empyrrhical Thinking, and why kant can't; Part Four Reincarnations and Visitations: Modernism and Postmodernism All Over Again; Chapter 9 From On The Manner of Addressing Clouds;
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Thomas McEvilley, G. Roger Denson
