Art line thought
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Art line thought
(Contributions to phenomenology, v. 21)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1996
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Note
Bibliography: p. 465-470
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Art Line Thought discusses the main issues that beset our time and philosophy by locating these same issues in artworks and describing closely what is shown there. While respecting their differences, art and philosophy are thus made to cross back and forth into one another, delineating in fresh ways our concerns about nature, the human and non-human, the body, femininity, ecology, technology, textism, the end of history, community, postmodernism, relativism and non-Eurocentric ethics. A `philosophy of line' gathers these issues, opposing the current dominance of `word' and linguistic analyses. Art has long been aware that the line communicates meaning at least as well as the word. The volume is divided between contemporary and prehistoric art in order to reveal the presumptions of `Western' culture and how we might move beyond it. Since the book is a critique of Eurocentric thinking and prose, it works at finding new styles of both.
Its philosophical meditation is directed equally to those who are intellectually interested in contemporary and prehistoric art, in theories of postmodern culture and criticism, and in anthropology.
Table of Contents
Preface. Part I. The Prehistoric. Book I: Sculptural Archaic Thought. Illustrations. 1: Thinking of the Future Archaically: In the Shape of a Peplos. 2: Drawing Out Prehistory: Sculptural Archaic Thought. 3: Appendix of Quotations. Endnotes to Book I. Book II: The Minoan and the Philosophical. Illustrations. I: Swirling Beyond Our Time: Along Minoan and Nazcan Lines. II: The Minoan Midst: Ceramic Swirling Thought. Endnotes to Book II. Introductions. Part II: The Contemporary. Book III: The Regular and the Sinuous. Illustrations. I: Thinking the Line Through Serra's Sculpture. II: The Line of Performance: Pina Bausch's Dance-Theatre. Book IV: Here to Zero. Illustrations. Chronological Table of Composition. Texts Cited. Index.
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