TY  - BOOK
AU  - Day,Gail
TI  - Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory
T2  - Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
SN  - 9780231520621
AV  - N6490 .D535 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Negation (Logic)
KW  - Art
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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