Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory

by Gail Day

Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of "critical postmodernism" and beyond, Day counters the belief that recent tendencies in art fail to be adequately critical. She also challenges the political inertia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231149387
• ISBN13: 9780231149389
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher