Description: Seams : Art As a Philosophical Context, Hardcover by Melville, Stephen; Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy (EDT), ISBN 9057010313, ISBN-13 9789057010316, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe brings to Melville's work the insight not only of an art critic and theorist, but of a practicing artist as well. Navigating through the complexity of contemporary thought and philosophy, Gilbert-Rolfe unravels the Gordian knot of the diverse discourses that circumscribe Melville's views, revealing the practicality and clarity of Melville's speculative narratives. Stephen Melville is one of the most thoughtful critics to emerge in recent years. He has applied the tools developed by Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan to the problems of contemporary art. With his roots in Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, he reopens questions of art's reception, interpretation, and commentary. Not only does he articulate the limitations of these categories, and how they are set into motion-stasis and balance are not the goal. He demonstrates how the territory of each of these discourses is maintained by their relationship to one another. Melville's texts not only represent the complexity of his subjec
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Book Title: Seams : Art As a Philosophical Context
Number of Pages: 252 Pages
Publication Name: Seams : Art As a Philosophical Context
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Media Studies, Criticism & Theory, History / General
Publication Year: 1996
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Author: Stephen Melville, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Art, Social Science
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture Ser.
Format: Hardcover
