Day, Gail. <br/><br/>
Dialectical Passions :  Negation in Postwar Art Theory. 

 - New York :  Columbia University Press,  (c)2010. 
 - 1 online resource (321 pages). 
 - Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. T.J. Clark and the Pain of the Unattainable Beyond; Chapter 2. Looking the Negative in the Face: Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice School of Architecture; Chapter 3. Absolute Dialectical Unrest: Or, the Dizziness of a Perpetually Self-Engendered Disorder; Chapter 4. The Immobilizations of Social Abstraction; Afterword: Abstract and Transitive Possibilities; Notes; Index. 
<br/><br/> Representing a new generation of theorists who reaffirm 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 and challenges the political inertia that results from these conclusions. Day organizes her defense around critics who have engaged substantively with emancipatory thought. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231520621 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art, Modern--Philosophy.--20th century<br/>Art, Modern--Philosophy.--21st century<br/>Negation (Logic)<br/>Art, Modern--Philosophy.--20th century<br/>Art, Modern--Philosophy.--21st century<br/>Art.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N6490  / .D535 2010