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Objects in This Mirror
Engelsk Paperback
Objects in This Mirror
Engelsk Paperback

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Objects in This Mirror is a collection of essays on contemporary art, literature, landscape, aesthetics, and cultural history. Beginning with a polemical and personal defense of generalism and curiosity, Brian Dillon explores the variety of themes it is possible today to corral within the rubric of the critical essay. These pieces engage with the work of such artists as Tacita Dean, Gerard Byrne, Andy Warhol, and Sophie Calle; with the ruinous territories that haunt the work of Robert Smithson and Derek Jarman; with the ambiguous figures of the charlatan, the vandal, the hypochondriac, and the dandy. Taking seriously the playful remit of the essay as form, Dillon treats of compelling obscurities: gesture manuals of the nineteenth century, the history of antidepressant marketing, the search for a cure to the common cold. Whether his topic is the nature of slapstick, his love of the writings of Roland Barthes, or the genre of the essay itself, he is as much concerned with the form of criticism today as with its varied and digressive subjects.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
372
ISBN-13:
9781934105795
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1934105791
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 apr 2011
Længde:
29mm
Bredde:
135mm
Højde:
178mm
Forlag:
Sternberg Press
Oplagsdato:
1 apr 2011
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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