Cultural Critique And Abstraction
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Author |
: Elisabeth W. Joyce |
Publisher |
: Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 170 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 083875371X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780838753712 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Critique and Abstraction by : Elisabeth W. Joyce
This study of Marianne Moore and the visual arts focuses on how art productions serve to break down and re-create cultural practice, proving that culture is a mutable organism, reluctant to change, but not impervious to it. In doing so, author Elisabeth W. Joyce shows that, even though Moore may have restricted herself to the quiet, provincial life of Brooklyn, her poetry attests to her resistance to the constrictions imposed by the predominating bourgeoisie. This study presents the bifurcation between modernism and the avant-garde where, while the modernists retreated from engagement in society, the avant-gardistes remained focused on political and social issues in order to critique stifling cultural phenomena so that art could effect cultural changes. In taking this stance, instead of viewing Moore's poetry as typically and provincially American, Joyce places her in the international and radical art movements of the early twentieth century.
Author |
: David Craven |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1999-02-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822026397844 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Abstract Expressionism and the Cultural Logic of Romantic Anti-Capitalism by : David Craven
A study of the political implications of Abstract Expressionism.
Author |
: Frida Beckman |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 172 |
Release |
: 2016-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783488025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783488026 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Culture Control Critique by : Frida Beckman
When “revolution” becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary content, this book suggests that one way is to pay attention not so much to content as to form. Culture Control Critique provides an analysis of how representations of political systems in contemporary mainstream culture may be understood not so much by looking at their apparent critical message but by shifting our critical gaze to an underlying and recurring political logic that controls the desire for political change.
Author |
: Phillip Brian Harper |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2015-12-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781479865437 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1479865435 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Abstractionist Aesthetics by : Phillip Brian Harper
An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. Arguing against the need for “positive” representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic production, including the visual work of Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial blackness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended, rendering abstractionism as the most powerful modality for Black representation.
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1479808873 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781479808878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Abstractionist Aesthetics by :
Author |
: Anton C. Zijderveld |
Publisher |
: Lane, Allen |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:153912816 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Abstract Society by : Anton C. Zijderveld
Author |
: Teresa L. Ebert |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2010-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252091063 |
ISBN-13 |
: 025209106X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Task of Cultural Critique by : Teresa L. Ebert
In this study, Teresa L. Ebert makes a spirited, pioneering case for a new cultural critique committed to the struggles for human freedom and global equality. Demonstrating the implosion of the linguistic turn that isolates culture from historical processes, The Task of Cultural Critique maps the contours of an emerging materialist critique that contributes toward a critical social and cultural consciousness. Through groundbreaking analyses of cultural texts, Ebert questions the contemporary Derridian dogma that asserts "the future belongs to ghosts." Events-to-come are not spectral, she contends, but the material outcome of global class struggles. Not "hauntology" but history produces cultural practices and their conflictive representations--from sexuality, war, and consumption to democracy, torture, globalization, and absolute otherness. With close readings of texts from Proust and Balzac to "Chick Lit," from Lukács, de Man, Deleuze, and Marx to Derrida, Žižek, Butler, Kollontai, and Agamben, the book opens up new directions for cultural critique today.
Author |
: Rebecca Colesworthy |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2017-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317367826 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317367820 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now by : Rebecca Colesworthy
Since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, the notion that capitalism has become too abstract for all but the most rarefied specialists to understand has been widely presupposed. Yet even in academic circles, the question of abstraction itself – of what exactly abstraction is, and does, under financialisation – seems to have gone largely unexplored – or has it? By putting the question of abstraction centre stage, How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now offers an indispensable counterpoint to the ‘economic turn’ in the humanities, bringing together leading literary and cultural critics in order to propose that we may know far more about capital’s myriad abstractions than we typically think we do. Through in-depth engagement with classic and cutting-edge theorists, agile analyses of recent Hollywood films, groundbreaking readings of David Foster Wallace’s sprawling, unfinished novel, The Pale King, and even original poems, the contributors here suggest that the machinations and costs of finance – as well as alternatives to it – may already be hiding in plain sight. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.
Author |
: Anton C. Zijderveld |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1068798531 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis ˜Theœ abstract Society by : Anton C. Zijderveld
Author |
: John Gage |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2009-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0500600287 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780500600283 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Colour and Culture by : John Gage